10-28-2006, 05:17 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->As for the Indian opinion about foreigners converting, well there are different opinions, the more Orthodox Hindus such as the Srinageri mutt Shankaracharya who refuses to initiate any converts.
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I don't know if the Sringeri Mutt initiates converts or not, but the Sankaracharya of that Mutt does write articles regularly for the Hinduism Today magazine.
This magazine is run by White Hindus from Hawaii. So at least implicitly he recognizes them as Hindus.
At the Kanchi Mutt we have one Thai hindu studying the Vedas.
There was one half-European half-Indian who performed a Bharatanatyam concert there.
So even these Ultra Orthodox Brahmanical institutions don't discriminate as much as people think.
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I don't know if the Sringeri Mutt initiates converts or not, but the Sankaracharya of that Mutt does write articles regularly for the Hinduism Today magazine.
This magazine is run by White Hindus from Hawaii. So at least implicitly he recognizes them as Hindus.
At the Kanchi Mutt we have one Thai hindu studying the Vedas.
There was one half-European half-Indian who performed a Bharatanatyam concert there.
So even these Ultra Orthodox Brahmanical institutions don't discriminate as much as people think.
