/lit/ - Literature

>>14381890
Guenon is an interesting scholar for sure, but what you've stated isn't really what's at issue. What is at issue is whether Shankara (living around 800AD) essentially coopted the discourses of Buddhist idealism ca. 200-600AD, taped some Upanishad references to the end, and called it Hinduism. In reality he was founding a new religion that was effectively a Buddhized and Brahmanized Vedism. This is similar to what happened to the Upanishads themselves actually, since they came more out of the dissident brahmanic traditions like Aranyakas and the non-brahmanic sramanas, and only later were reabsorbed into a brahmanic hegemony.

Centuries later, brahmanic religiosity had broken down yet again and was extremely weak, and Buddhism was doing much more vigorous philosophy, for a span of about half a millennium. It was in response to this crisis that Shankara "saved" Hinduism by stealing the much more advanced philosophy of the Buddhist schools and appending ".... but it's ATMAN!" at the end.

None of this is controversial, either. Not only scholars in the West and in India agree that Shankara basically "saved Hinduism from Buddhism by making Hinduism into Buddhism," but this was the common opinion of Hindus themselves, including contemporaries. Shankara was seen as a dangerous heretic.

I'm not a Buddhist myself, I just think it's funny that Guenonfag knows so little about his own traditions and history. I also think it's funny that everyone can plainly see how stupid he is. Every time he tries to post misinformation, he gets humiliated by someone smarter, or by actual sources. His response is always to post more quotes from Theosophy books and Western theosophical authors. Or to post child-fucking cult leaders like Schuon, which he did a few hours ago.

I just like that every time he posts, everyone knows who he is and how stupid he is. He tried to post his bullshit about the early Upanishads again yesterday and some guy effortlessly humiliated him.

>>14381903
If only. Pic related: When Guenonfag got banned the other day, all his posts were deleted, and this was one of them. So we know he's desperate.

>>14376364
hard to say, guenonfag was caught posting this the other day so he's an incel. prime demographic for trapping.

I want to alert the whole Guenonfag fanclub in this thread to a special occurrence.

As has been noted, the other day (December 8, around 7-8PM EST) Guenonfag was banned and his posts were wiped. I searched the archive around that time for all deleted posts, as he was shitposting up quite a storm that afternoon.

This thread:
>>/lit/thread/S14310286#p14310318
has a single deleted post, near the top. I have attached a screenshot of the post in question to this post. You will note that the post's filename is scrambled in exactly the way that Guenonfag typically scrambles his filenames to avoid being searched in the archives (things like 2342424234 or 455464534 since he is just hitting a few numbers close together).