Blurb:

Published at the same time as ‘Buddhism and the Western World’, Bennett revisits here his ‘Aryan’ theory. This now discredited racial theory appears in a number of Metteyya’s writings. According to Metteyya, there were two branches of the ‘Aryan race’, those in India (Indo-Aryans) and those in the west. Here, he negatively contrasts western ‘Aryans’ with those of India. The former had chosen the external world and materialism. The latter had chosen the interior world and inner consciousness, particularly the giving up of selfhood and selfishness.