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There were trade routes between Tibet, and India, passing through Kathmandu of Nepal. Kathmandu waa very culturally, economically rich due to this. Even minting coins for Tibet. Nepali architect like Araniko went all the way to China and made the famous portrait of Kublai Khan, also popularized Pagoda architecture in China.

Buddhism spread to China. Scholars like Xuanzang travelled all the way to India. Journey to the West, was famously about travel to India, where the ‘west’ is India. Conversely, China had influence on cuisine of the subcontinent.

I am the river, the boat that floats 

I am the love in the lover, the doubt in the doubter

I am the whole within, and the whole without

The scent of your tears, the colors of your lies

The one truth, the greatest lie.

I am the glowing, and all that glows

I am the water and the river that flows.

Good ol’ colonial mindset?

I am not even talking about western society. If you discuss philosophy with the upper echelon people of my society (from Nepal), in my experience, they have zero ideas about eastern philosophy, haven’t heard about Nagarjuna, Gangesa, Udayana, Shankaracharya, Dharmakriti, Chandrakriti etc. The first reaction from them is outright rejection of any philosophical output or calling it spiritual mumbo jumbo, or downplaying them as such they have zero impacts in the world.

Mind you they are not from Europe. They are from my own country, where many of these philosophical traditions originate from or are part of. Is this what cultural colonialism look like?