/lit/ - Literature

>>14573630
And so you admit your inability to defend Nagarjuna's flawed logic. Sri Shankaracharya (pbuh) truly exposed the utter foundationlessness and incoherence of Buddhism when he wrote:

"From whatever new points of view the Buddha's system is tested with reference to its probability, it gives way on all sides, like the walls of a well, dug in sandy soil. It has, in fact, no foundation whatever to rest upon and hence the attempts to use it as a guide in the practical concerns of life are mere folly. Moreover Buddha, by propounding the three mutually contradicting systems, teaching respectively the reality of the external world, the reality of ideas only and general nothingness, has himself made it clear that he was a man given to make incoherent assertions or else that hatred of all beings induced him to propound absurd doctrines by accepting which they would become thoroughly confused…Buddha’s doctrine has to be entirely disregarded by all those who have a regard for their own happiness."

Brahma Sutra Bhasya 2.2.32.

>>14568905
>Where to start with Shankara
The compilation of his 8 Upanishad commentaries translated by Gambhirananda
>why is his system better than Theravada?
Shankaracharya (pbuh) is an infallible metaphysician who BTFOs Theravada is just about every way imaginable, if you want a more in-depth answer you'll have to get more specific

>>14486351
https://discord.gg/wSzFjSU

Advaita is indeed true my friend, I recommend you start with Introduction to the Study of the Hindu Doctrines by Rene Guenon

>>14385889
>he hasn't transcended the need for sex

>>14351515
makes him seethe for some reason

>>14113626
Buddhists wrote a myth in an attempt to soothe their asspain and preserve their dignity after Shankara completely destroyed one of their more influential thinkers, not a single Buddhist thinker ever being unable to provide any response to Shankara's critiques or a defense of Dharmakirti's ideas in light of Shankara's eviscerating of them, they had to recourse to made-up "we wuz debaters n sheeit" narratives.

>>14000477
For me, it was Śaṅkarācārya, although from reading brief sections of Plotinus I have sensed the same potential from him

I use a note book to write down my thoughts as I read

I'm not even Guenonfag

This guy. Interestingly enough me finding God and my increased hatred of all things Christian have gone hand in hand.

>>13356986
OP, try to find something that you think he plagiarized from Buddhism that isn't in the Upanishads. Every idea that people point to as alleged influence or stealing can already be found in them, most of them in the pre-Buddhist ones

Did Adi Shankara complete the system of Aryan Idealism?

>>13122370
Shankara completed the system of Aryan Idealism.

>>12832758
Yes, start with Bhagavad Gita

Here is the Bhagavad Gita with Shankara commentary
>http://michaelsudduth.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita-Shankara-Bhashya-English.pdf

although maybe you should read it without commentary the first time, that is what I did.