/lit/ - Literature

>B-BUT THEY'RE NOT SIMILAR!
>P-P-PRE-BUDDHIST UPANISHADS READ THE PRE-BUDDHIST UPANISHADS GODDAMIT

>tfw advaita is universally rejected by hindus as being buddhism in disguise
>tfw its only followers live in america, have christian parents, and have never been to india

>>14992503
I'm with you bro, Eternalist retards are forever stuck in samsara with their level of cringe

today we will remind them of Shankara's Buddhism

>>14833213
fuck off Guénonfag. Shankara copied Buddhism and was a crypto Buddhist.

>B-BUT THEY'RE NOT SIMILAR!
>P-P-PRE-BUDDHIST UPANISHADS READ THE PRE-BUDDHIST UPANISHADS GODDAMIT

>>14663379
Forgot to post pic. It's been a running joke for a thousand years that the Advaita crowd are cryptobuddhists, and the best kind of joke too because it's 100% true. After hundreds of years of other Hindus laughing at Advaitins for being cryptobuddhists, as soon as modern scholarship arose, it came to the same conclusions too. Even within India.

The only people who still care are internet mystics like that theosophist guenonfag.

>>14637499

>>14637211
but even many major advaita followers like radhakrishnan are saying that shankara was a cryptobuddhist? i'm fucking confused, even the advaita followers admit it?

>>14613711
not him but what this have to do with Shankara's plagiarism of Nagarjuna's framework? A lot of things in Shankara's system have logical holes which Shankara inherited from Nagarjuna (such as the Jivanmukti paradox).

>>14602657
>Advaita didn't plagiarize anything from Buddhism
cope

just don't confuse neoplatonism (which is good) for buddhist nondualism (advaita)

threadly reminder that shankara's "grand guru" is considered by nearly all modern scholarship and even most indians (including most advaitins) of being heavily influenced by nagarjuna's buddhism, and even plagiarizing the whole fourth book from nagarjuna

threadly reminder that shankara has been considered a cryptobuddhist for the same reasons for a thousand years

the only people who get mad at this or try to deny it are neovedantists who have a personal stake in worshiping shankara because they don't actually know their own religion (real advaitins admit all this and don't care), watch the replies to this post

>>14545620
>shankara

You mean nagarjuna

>>14527098
>shankara wasn't a crypto bhud-

>>14501481
sadly yes

>>14490219
Be careful about Shankara. His fellow Hindus have long said about him that he is a cryptobuddhist, taking a buddhist framework and only superficially connecting it to the Upanishads.

Of course Shankara's devotees dispute this but it is the standard opinion among hindus and modern historians of religion.

>>14455194
reuniting this picture with its companion

>>14442881
>Shankara
aka crypto-Buddhist LARPer

>>14390654
Fuck off schizophrenic asshole

>>14388852
of course he did

pic related