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>hurr durr maybe if I try to overwhelm someone with a bunch of citations they won't see through my bullshit
Your cope is obvious, it's really amazing how bad Shankara triggers you clowns, you must not be practicing Buddhist teachings very well, I'll take your allegations in order
>Advaita's and Buddhism's theories on True Reality and Maya are similar,[7]
In the pre-Buddhist Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, it already says Brahman is the 'truth of truth' (2.1.20. & 2.3.6), and most of the Upanishads describe Brahman as the ultimate reality in various ways, the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad also already mentions the doctrine of Maya by name (2.5.19) which also appears throughout the Upanishads. Thus, the idea of the Absolute as ultimate reality and of this being obscured by Maya predate Buddhism, Buddha took these from the Upanishads, or if we are to mirror your style, Buddha 'plagiarized' these
>Frank Whaling states that the monastic practices and monk tradition in Advaita are similar to those found in Buddhism.[8]
Again, in the Brihadaranyaka it talks about and enjoins monasticism (4.4.22 & 4.5.2), the emperor Yajnavalkya is described as renouncing the world and becoming a monk as part of his enlightenment, this predates Buddhism
>Advaita took over from the Madhyamika the idea of levels of reality.[57]
Again, in the Brihadaranyaka, Brahman is described as the 'truth of truth', also Shankara's is different from Madhyamika's anyways. The idea of there being a higher reality to be realized is implicit in the doctrine of Maya which predates Buddhism, you can't have Maya obscuring the truth of something without necessarily separating those concepts into "that which appeared due to Maya' and 'that which appears after Maya is overcome', the idea of two truths is just an elaboration of Maya, again all this predates Buddhism
>'Shankara and his followers borrowed much of their dialectic form of criticism from the Buddhists
WRONG, Sharma notes "technique between Gaudapáda on the one hand and the Mádhyamika and Vijñánávádí Buddhists on the other should not be taken to mean that Gaudapáda has borrowed these from the Buddhists. Gaudapáda flourished at that when Maháyána was prevalent and he was fully conversant with the Maháyána philosophy. Terms are the heritage of language and like current coins can be used by anyone who writes in that language. The dialectical method though developed in the Mádhyamika school did not originate with it or even with Buddha. Its origin is found in the Upanisads and its first exponent is the sage Yajñavalkya. The doctrinal similarities, as pointed out by Gaudapada himself,are due to the fact that Buddha himself took these doctrines from the Upanisads and these were developed in the Maháyána schools."
>His Brahman was very much like the sunya of Nagarjuna
lol, Shankara just accepts the Upanishad descriptions of Brahman and lets them speak for him and takes them literally, this is completely retarded