>>14593676
That image is pure cope. The great Shankaracharya (pbuh) completely obliterated the illogical heresy known as Buddhism and vanquished it from India. He completely destroyed as incoherent and logically inconsistent ideas of the Hinayana and the Yogachara, and dismissed Madhyamaka as being unable to give any good reasons for their claims of emptiness (which is true). The Buddhist scholar Richard Robinson later went on to debunk Nagarjuna and Madhyamika (pic related), in fact there isn't an early school of Buddhism which hasn't been exposed illogical and contradictory, there simply is no logical Buddhist philosophy. I couldn't summarize it better than the infallible sage Shankaracharya (pbuh) himself 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.