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''Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity'' is a 2014 book by Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American author, philanthropist and public speaker, published by HarperCollins. The book is an appeal against the thesis of neo-Hinduism and a defense of Vivekananda's view of Yoga and Vedanta. The book argues for an unity, coherence, and continuity of the Yogic and Vedantic traditions of Hinduism and Hindu philosophy. It makes proposals for defending Hinduism from what the author considers to be unjust attacks from scholars, misguided public intellectuals, and hostile religious polemicists. ''Indra's Net'' has been reviewed in newspapers,〔 name=thehindu20140205/>〔 name=nadkami14/>〔 name=kamath14/> video sharing sites,〔 name=swamy14/> web fora,〔 name=gagn14/>〔 name=misra2014/> and other websites.〔 name=raman2014/> ==Background & release== Malhotra had written several previous books defending various aspects of Hinduism. He states that ''Indra's Net'' was catalyzed by a 2012 panel at the meetings of the American Academy of Religion to discuss his book ''Being Different'' (2011). Two panelists based their objections against the book on the "single premise" that no unified Hindu tradition existed. These panelists "regarded any notion of Hindu unity as a dangerous fabrication and saw me as guilty of propagating it." Malhotra had known of several distinct cases of bias The book's central metaphor is "Indra's Net". As a scriptural image "Indra's Net" was first mentioned in the Atharva Veda (c. 1000 BCE). In Buddhist philosophy, Indra's Net served as a metaphor in the Avatamsaka Sutra and was further developed by Huayen Buddhism to portray the interconnectedness of everything in the universe. Malhotra employs the metaphor of Indra's Net to express The book uses Indra's Net as a metaphor for the understanding of the universe as a web of connections and interdependences, an understanding which Malhotra wants to revive as the foundation for Vedic cosmology, a perspective that he asserts has "always been implicit" in the outlook of the ordinary Hindu. ''Indra's Net'' was released in India on 29 January 2014 at the Vivekananda International Foundation, where a talk was given by Arun Shourie. Shourie stated that in the book, Malhotra "has given us a pair of spectacles, a new pair of spectacles through which to understand... our own religions and our own tradition". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indra's Net (book)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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