Neglected Traditions

Traditionalism has become largely a “movement” of Christians and Muslims, with Muslims predominating. Are there presently any Hindu, Buddhist or Jewish authorities today who are both entirely traditional and possibly open to a “perennialist” perspective?

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What About Neglected Traditions?

Posted on November 22nd, 2010 by Charles in Neglected Traditions. There are 15 Comments.

The Traditionalist School once embraced Hindu members, including Ananda K. Coomaraswamy and A. K. Saran; a prominent Buddhist member, Marco Pallis; and an element of Judaism through Leo Schaya (although Schaya himself was a Muslim), through his book The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah [Sophia Perennis] and his important article “The Eliatic Function” which appeared in Studies in Comparative Religion. But who are the Hindu, the Muslim, the Jewish Traditionalists/Perennialists of today?

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