Classical Indic Medicine III: Vrikshayurveda August 2, 2023UncategorizedDharma, Sci/Tech, Society, TraditionsN.R.I.pathi It has been many years since we touched on the topic of Ayurveda. There are a myriad roles and applications for this upaveda. It is so multi-faceted that we often forget that it goes beyond even the health … Read the rest
Personalities: Dignaga April 1, 2023UncategorizedBharatavarsha, Buddha, Dharma, Personalities, TraditionsN.R.I.pathi After a long hiatus, ICP returns with an article on a key historical and philosophical figure. Often times, the theoretical intersects with the biographical. One such figure with an emblazoned imprimatur on Indic Logic was a studious Buddhist stalwart. Indeed, … Read the rest
Indic Decision-Making Under Uncertainty—4 December 29, 2022UncategorizedDharma, Elite, India, Niti, Purva Paksha, Sci/TechShivoham Ritamic Decision Policy “Scientists can predict the path of two billiard balls with precision, and the average behavior of two million gas particles. But what about the messy middle ground, where twenty or thirty components interact with one … Read the rest
On Lokayata October 14, 2022UncategorizedDharma, History, Sanatana, Society, TraditionsN.R.I.pathi Long time readers would remember our article on Charvaka and how Modern Hindus are in fact just that, despite their professing of Vedic orthodoxy. Ritualistic expression is not only conflated for spirituality, it has become the means through which Chaarvaakas … Read the rest
Literature: Buddhacharita September 5, 2022UncategorizedBuddha, Dharma, History, LiteratureN.R.I.pathi One of the most lucid backgrounds yet most occluded histories remains that of the Thathagatha. While orthodox Buddhist accounts and even rival Vedic Dharma’s Puraanas are clear that Siddhartha Gauthama, that is, The Buddha, was of Sooryavamsa Kshathriya background, modernists … Read the rest
