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'The Heathen in His Blindness...' makes a strong case for the claim that non-Western 'religions' are projections of the West, but there are gaps. Does this characterization of Christianity also characterize Judaism and Islam? The broad description of Indian culture fits many other Asian and non-Asian cultures. Nietzschean and Buddhist supplements to the Christian-derived conception of truth reveal that we do not evaluate these issues from some transcendental perspective. Balagangadhara's contrast between 'religion' and 'India (Asia)' is employed to criticize the Western tradition, but in this regard he is as much a product (and agent) of it as any other Western scholar who debates these issues.

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