Christopher Ingham wrote:
> On Mar 10, 1:47 pm, Christopher Culver
> <crcul...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Mar 10, 2:53 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>> > What's "monotheist" about Hinduism?
>>
>> During the recent California textbook row, a couple of American Hindu
>> organizations strived to convince the public that Hinduism was really
>> a monotheist faith. (So it would seem more palatable to the average
>> American???)
>
> All the gods and goddesses of Hinduism and their numerous
> incarnations are regarded as aspects of the one Supreme
> Being.
>
> BTW, Hinduism is a synthesis of the religion brought into
> India by the Aryans, the original speakers also of Vedic
> Sanskrit.
>
"Westerners" normally don't fail to assign the "deeper" ideas (involving
karma, samsara, brahman, atman etc) to the Dravidians.
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