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100			_aMalhotra, Rajiv
245			_aBeing different: an Indian challenge to western universalism _cby Rajiv Malhotra
260			_aNew Delhi _bHarperCollins Publishers India _c2013
300			_avii, 474 p. : ill, ; 22 cm.
500			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aIndia is more than a nation state. It is also a unique civilization with philosophies and cosmologies that are markedly distinct from the dominant culture of our times -- the West. India's spiritual traditions spring from dharma which has no exact equivalent in Western frameworks ... Rajiv Malhotra addresses the challenge of a direct and honest engagement on differences, by reversing the gaze, repositioning India from being the observed to the observer and looking at the West from the dharmic point of view. In doing so, he challenges many hiterto unexamined beliefs that both sides hold about themselves and each other. He highlights that while unique historical revelations are the basis for Wester religions, dharma emphasizes self-realization in the body here and now. He also points out the integral unity that underpins dharma's metaphysics and contrasts this with Western thought and history as synthetic unity.
650			_aComparative civilization
650			_aRezeption
650			_aReligions
650			_aDharma Buddhism philosophy
650			_aDharma
650			_aCivilization
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