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Arvind Sharma Quotes

born 1940 Canada

Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University. Sharma's works focus on Hinduism, philosophy of religion.

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The idea is that all varnas are contained in every individual, instead of every individual being comprised within one of the varnas.

The view that Hinduism as a religion, or the Hindus as a people, lack a sense of history has been expressed so often as to have become a cliché. Even when scholars have tried to take a more sophisticated as opposed to a clichéd view, the effect has often been to reinforce it.

Arvind Sharma - Hinduism and Its Sense of History (2003)

In Theravada Buddhism, Buddha's omniscience is claimed only with respect to diagnosing the cause of dukkha and prescribing the way of removing it, the further wrinkle being that the Buddha unlike other arhants, knew this remedy in each individual case, whereas the arhants by and large relied on the four noble truths, which in any case has been had been propounded by Buddha.

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