Wednesday, September 14, 2016

A Claim to Modernity


The contributions of the Buddhist thought seem at the same time to be the most ancient as well as the most modern; its theory of causation, its relativism, its doctrine of sense-data, its pragmatism, its emphasis on morals, its disbelief in any permanent soul and its unconcern about God and its denial of the validity of scriptures and denial of rituals and its anti-metaphysical character and its appeal to experience all tend to establish its superior claim to modernity.

---Dr. S. N. Dasgupta, Principal, Sanskrit College, Kolkata, India---




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