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>>14904764
>It wasn't different since Shankara ﷺ BTFOd and DUNKED ON all the heretical branches of Hinduism.

It truly is a sublime experience reading him, his shining brilliance cuts through ignorance and falsehood like a blazing sword. Here in this picture is a classic BTFOing by him of some clueless Buddhist who argues for there being no self.

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>>14647221
>The 'self' is just a convenient fiction, not a fundamental constituent of reality.
This foolishness was retroactively refuted by the venerable Sri Shankaracharya (pbuh)

>>14647745
>The Self is illusor-

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>>14490332
see pic related

>>14473658
>Buddhism
OH NO NO NO NO

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>>14471206

>the self is an illusi-

>>14442572
>buddha
retroactively refuted by Shankara

>>14429590
Buddhism was retroactively refuted by Shankara

>>14431224
>the self is an illus-

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>>14429991

BUDDHISM BTFO!!!!

>>14423612
Shankara retroactively refutes Nagarjuna in the eighth page of this image

>>14396704
it was those high IQ Brahmin genes that allowed him to see right through their sophistry and flawed reasoning

>>14393772
>What are the arguments then?
It depends on the Buddhist school of thought people argue from, and they often jump between the arguments of one to another and from those to materialist arguments as well, it would be a long and tiresome task with no reward for me to summarize all of them for you now, but here for example is an excerpt from Shankara's commentary on the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad where he demolishes common Buddhist arguments for no-self one after another.
>Which ones lack the coherence that you seek?
just about all of them, they all either are completely contradicted by our immediate experience and/or are logically inconsistent
>What objections can't the no-self doctrine rebut?
see pic related

>>14378185
The point is that regardless of whether you want to claim that consciousness is 'conditional' which is an unfalsifiable claim; that any attempt to show that it is an aggregate fails to accord with the continuum of our immediate conscious experience, see pic related for example

>>14263464
>Shankara didn't demolish against the arguments of Buddhists who say the self does not exis-

>the self doesn't exis-

>>14208419
>he idea of "actual true self" is just hogwash idea that says there's a true substance underlying reality that creates everything
Wrong, Atma is not a substance in Advaita

Buddhist arguments against there being any self remain entirely unconvincing, most of them were debunked by Shankara. In the Suttas Buddha says that to say that the self exists and that the self does not exists are two extremes which are both wrong, subsequent Buddhism made the mistake of interpreting this as justification for arguing that there is no self whatsoever, falling into the very pit that Buddha stated was the nihilistic extreme. Some Buddhists began to realize how foolish this was though which is why they began to smuggle proxy Atmas back into Buddhism like with how Asanga introduced the teaching of non-dual eternal consciousness of Parinispanna into Yogachara which spread to other Mahayana.

>Like a parts of the cart/car can be dismantled entirely and you won't find a "core" car/cart hidden.
This amounts to a simple hand-waving away of the problem that doesn't accord with the undeniable reality of our witnessing consciousness