/lit/ - Literature

>Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about our great teacher Siddhartha Buddha and his message of loving kindness :)

>Hello, do you have a moment to talk about the Tathagata?

Excuse me sir, do you have a moment to talk about the Tathagata?

>>10129652
Start here:
http://webdelprofesor.ula.ve/humanidades/elicap/en/uploads/Biblioteca/bdz-e.version.pdf

>>10129994
This is a terrible selection. Buddhist masters and Buddhological scholars themselves greatly emphasize the need of starting with commentaries first before main texts for many valid reasons.

You aren't going to get shit from just reading a heart sutra right off the bat, nor will have any understanding of what Nagarjuna is getting at in his MMK.

>Mahayana Buddhism is highly logical
This is misleading, Mahayana Buddhism isn't a tradition but a huge number of very different sects, including Vajrayana (aka "uncommon Mahayana"). Some of them are highly topical and frankly don't place emphasis on logic, others are very logical and critical.

And the Bodhisattvacaryāvatāra isn't a Tibetan text. While earlier Indian commentators had great influence on Tibetans it is misleading to start there for several reasons.

>>10129988
>"Dude lmao like just shut off your brain": The Religion
This is an embarrassing caricature even for this board and is on par with the embarrassing caricature so many dumb Westerners where they imagine Buddhism is a feel-good "all is one" psychology that is all about being happy.

>>10130002
what you say little boi?

>>10130012
Alan Watts was never a scholar of Buddhism and half the time pushes new-age stuff dressed up in Buddhistic language.