Many followers of Druidry today feel a great affinity with one or more of the religions of India, and research shows that this feeling may be based upon more than simply a sense of spiritual resonance. There is now considerable evidence to suggest that Celtic and European cultures share a common origin with cultures that emerged in India thousands of years ago, and which gave birth to the ‘Dharmic religions’ of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. Spiritual seekers who find their inspiration in both Druidism and the Dharmic religions may well be reuniting strands of a common cultural and spiritual heritage.
The Order of Bards Ovates & Druids jointly with the International Center for Cultural Studies has initiated The One Tree Project – a research programme to explore these connections in detail, and you can read about this project here.
Here in a brief interview in Nagpur, India, in 2009, Philip Carr-Gomm gives a summary of the possible connections.
