Desire To Think

Tag: india

  • The Wheel and the Dharmacakra

    Dholavira Signboard — Wikimedia Commons From the Rig Veda to independent India Starting from maybe the mid-fourth millennium B.C., the proto-Indo-European people seem to have been constantly on the move, spreading out to the West and to the East. The full motivation for such rapid and multi-directional waves of migration is not well-understood, but the availability of…

  • Fate and free will on the Silk Road

    Buddhist monks and philosophical concepts A depiction of the Chinese monk Xuanzang on his journey to India — Wikimedia Commons “On one hand, it’s nihilistic to think that every outcome is simply random. I have to believe that the world is better when we act morally, and that people who do good things deserve a somewhat better…