[Buddha-l] Re: Is there any Buddhist influence on the earlyGreeks?

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Ngawang Dorje schreef:

>  
> Of the many 1000s of books on Indian and Greek metaphysics I own, this 
> is the only one written within the past 40 years thats intelligent and 
> insightful. The author has the better part of a grasp upon the 
> Monistic ontology of Greek and Indian metaphysics and the "ascent to 
> the One" (epistrophe). Noticeably those greats such as Dr. A.K. 
> Coomaraswamy and S. Radhakrishnan loved both Neoplatonism and Indian 
> Advaita metaphysics equally, and in the same par as them is the author 
> of this, Mr. McEvilley. From someone that despises nearly all books as 
> profane trash written by simpleminded fools, let me say this book is 
> not one of them; which is an incredible exception to the rule of 
> modern sophistry and existentialist empiricism.
>
> Recommending only 10 books out of over many 1000s I own on being a 
> genuine book upon Metaphysics, this is one of those very few 10.
>  
> -

Stultitiae laus (praise of folly). Back are the days of Fritjof Capra, Lobsang Rampa and Carlos Castaneda. All is One!
BTW the webaddress of attan didn't work. Attan seems to be a kind of Afghan wedding dance.

Erik


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