A group of slaves will never make a liberal and progressive country; such a country can be made up only of independent-minded and free-thinking people. |
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border |
India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border |
Never before had China seen a religion so rich in imagery, so beautiful and captivating in ritualism and so bold in cosmological and metaphysical speculations. Like a poor beggar suddenly halting before a magnificent storehouse of precious stones of dazzling brilliancy and splendor, China was overwhelmed, baffled and overjoyed. She begged and borrowed freely from this munificent giver. The first borrowings were chiefly from the religious life of India, in which China's indebtedness to India can never be fully told. |
On the basis of biological, sociological, and historical knowledge, we should recognize that the individual self is subject to death or decay, but the sum total of individual achievement, for better or worse, lives on in the immortality of The Larger |