Brahman

== Brahman in Chinese thought ==
L. S. Vasil’ev, writing for the [[University of Pennsylvania]], argued that [[Syncretism|syncretic]] [[Taoism|Taoists]] used Brahman in their worship as a substitute for [[Tao]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Vasil’ev |first=L. S. |date=December 2014 |others=Translated by Rostislav Berezkin |title=Dao and Brahman: The Phenomenon of Primordial Supreme Unity |url=https://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp252_dao_brahman.pdf |website=[[Sino-Platonic Papers]] |publisher=[[University of Pennsylvania]] |pages=31}}</ref>

[[Victor H. Mair]] thought that Taoists in the early history of the faith had positive "cultural relations" with Hindu groups and that the ''[[Tao Te Ching]]'' was written in reaction to [[Indian philosophy]] and that the author(s) viewed Brahman as being the same as Tao.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Laozi |title=Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way |last2=Mair |first2=Victor H. |publisher=[[Quality Paperback Book Club]] |year=1998 |isbn=9780965064750 |location=New York |pages=135, 142, 160 |author-link=Laozi |author-link2=Victor H. Mair}}</ref>