Foreword: History: competition or collaboration? -- Diffusion channels in the pre-Alexandrian period -- The problem of the One and the Many -- The cosmic cycle -- The doctrine of reincarnation -- Platonic monism and Indian thought -- Platonic ethics and Indian yoga -- Plato, Orphics, and Jains -- Plato and kuṇḍalinī -- Cynics and Pāśupatas -- Five questions concerning the ancient Near East -- The elements -- Early pluralisms in Greece and India -- Skepticism, empiricism, and naturalism -- Diffusion channels in the Hellenistic and Roman periods -- Dialectic before Alexander -- Early Greek philosophy and Mādhyamika --Pyrrhonism and Mādhyamika -- The path of the dialectic -- The syllogism -- Peripatetics and Vaiśeṣikas -- The Stoics and Indian thought -- Neoplatonism and the Upaniṣadic-Vedāntic tradition -- Plotinus and Vijñānavāda Buddhism -- Neoplatonism and Tantra -- The ethics of imperturbability -- Afterword: Remarks toward a Conclusion -- App. A The Aryans -- App. B The Aryan Invasion -- App. C Black Athena and Western Xenophobia -- App. D The Golden Thigh -- App. E Philosophy and Grammar -- List of Works Cited. 

xxxvi, 732 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm 

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