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The double standard of misinterpretation

31 Sunday Aug 2014

Posted by Amod Lele in Hermeneutics, M.T.S.R., Modern Hinduism, Modernized Buddhism, Vedas and Mīmāṃsā

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Annie Besant, authenticity, Herman Tull, Max Müller, Sāyaṇa, Theosophy, Vedas

I have recently welcomed the corrective force of books like Andrew Nicholson’s Unifying Hinduism, which remind us that modern appropriations of Indian tradition have their own continuity with the evolving past tradition. I now find myself regularly reminded just how much such a corrective is needed. I have noted plenty of examples before, as with respect to Gregory Schopen and Donald Lopez. But I recently found perhaps the most striking example in the works of the contemporary Sanskrit scholar Herman Tull. Continue reading →

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