The Indian tradition balanced mind and body to produce and export quasi-secular knowledge systems like Buddhism, Yog, and Kung-Fu all over the world. Hu Shih, a late scholar and former Ambassador of the Republic of China to the US once stated, “India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border”. This cultural hegemony extended to most of Asia, not only China. Today, these ideas are gaining more and more prominence in the West, including a mainstream belief in holistic approaches, Gandhian Ahimsa (non-violent protest), Eastern medicine, Eastern philosophy, Karma, and “Yoga”.

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The Indian tradition exported the counting system that the whole world uses, decimals that cycle through 10 digits — forming the basis of modern algebra and all modern mathematics and science — as well as producing major innovations in the foundations of mathematics, physics, medicine and other sciences.

Schrodinger, Heisenberg, Bohr, and Oppenheimer were among the chief founders of Quantum Physics, the field of science which split the atom and birthed the transistor, creating the dual Nuclear Age and Computer Age that we live in. Their ideas about the nature of reality emerged from the mathematics, but when they needed the concepts to understand their equations, to understand Quantum Mechanics, they turned to the Indian knowledge tradition for conceptual clarity.