He was exposed to different cultures, languages, and religions, the latter including Zoroastrianism and Vedism (early Hinduism). He was a proponent of the Yogācāra (Sk: “Yoga practice”; Ch: Weishi zong, 唯識宗, “Consciousness Only”) school of Buddhism. He was super brave and intelligen...
Such an explanation overlooks two important facts, though. First, as devout Muslims, Pathans believe that all individuals are equal in the eyes of the creator. Consequently, there is no absolute genealogical “litmus test” of worthiness equivalent to the Hindu notion of inborn purity and pollutio...
Hinduism’s Vedāntic school of philosophy had its own tradition of ‘natural theology’. The schools that they opposed – Buddhists, atomists, Jains, Sāṃkhya, Carvaka materialists – often believed in some kind of deity but they did not see such deities as ultimate beings in the sense...
Northwest Pakistan has served as a point of entry to South Asia for different populations since ancient times. However, relatively little is known about the population genetic history of the people residing within this region. To better understand human dispersal in the region within the broader his...