"What the Gita is finally is inseparable from its many contextual environments, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, scholarly and popular, corporate and personal, secular and sacred - contextual environments that have emerged in an on-going historical process and will continue to emerge as that historical process unfolds."
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Sharpe, Eric J The universal Glta' Western images of the Bhagamd Gita: a bicentenary survey LaSalle, IL: Open Court Pub. Co, 1985. p.14 as quoted in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents and time about India and her culture
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Gerald James Larson
Gerald James Larson (April 24, 1938 – April 27, 2019) was an Indologist known for his writings about Indian religions.
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