/lit/ - Literature

>>19707112
> Plz post quotes and arguments from Adi Shankara's works about/against buddhism.
these are the main passages in question

>>18326415
>there's no internal inconsistency in budd-

>>18310707
from his Brahma Sutra Bhasya, part 1

>>17289945
>what are some (or all) examples of fundamental contradictions in buddhist doctrine, or arguments against it?

Various Hindu philosophers wrote criticisms of Buddhist doctrine, wherein they said that Buddhist doctrine was illogical and contained internal contradictions, the most extensive and thorough of these criticisms were made in my opinion by Adi Shankara. His arguments against Buddhism are found scattered throughout his works, the lion's share of them are contained in his Brahma Sutra Bhasya. Gambhirananda and Vasudeo have unabridged translations of that entire text which contain all the criticisms. AJ Alston also has a translation of those criticisms contained in his published selection of translated passages from Shankara's works arranged by topic. AJ Alson's translations are smoother reading, although they don't contain the text being commented on by Shankara, but this isn't important if you just want to read his arguments against Buddhism.

This thread linked below is a thread where AJ Alston's translation of most or all of Shankara's criticisms of Sarvastivada Buddhism in the Brahma Sutra Bhasya were posted, although it doesn't include his criticisms of Yogachara Buddhism. Pic related is part 1 of Gambhirananda's translation of the entire section of the Brahma Sutra Bhasya dealing with Buddhism. Part 2 which I will post after contains Shankara's criticisms of Yogachara Buddhism, although a little dealing with Yogachara is also contained near the end of the first picture.

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>>16904805
Shantaraksita belongs to the latter Yogacharin school of Dharmakirti and Dinnaga (also called Svatantra-Vijnanavada) and held to the same subjective idealist views about only momentary cognitons being real. Shankara completely demolished this viewpoint in his Brahma Sutra Bhasya when he pens a lengthy criticism of Yogachara, quoting from one of Dinnagas works in doing so (the first part of which is in pic related on one of the last pages). Not only did Shantaraksita completely fail to refute Shankara's demolishing of the Svatantra-Vijnanavada doctrines which Shantaraksita himself follows, but Shantaraksita got the basic facts about Advaita wrong and what he criticisms does not resemble Advaita doctrine in the slightest

>With the end of Svatantra-Vijnanavada virtually ended Buddhist philosophy in India. As this school degenerated into pluralistic subjectivism, it has been vehemently criticised by the absolutists, within its own fold by the later Madhyamikas like Chandrakirti and Shantideva and outside its fold by the great Shankaracharya. It is not our purpose to discuss this school in this work. We may remark here that some scholars include Shantaraksita, the famous author of the great polemical work Tattva-sangraha under the Madhyamika or the Madhyamika-Yogachara school. In our view this is incorrect. In his Tattvasangraha he employs the negative dialectic to criticise other schools, but the entire work is written from the Svatantra-Vijnanavada standpoint that consciousness is the only reality and that it is momentary. He himself admits that so far as ultimate reality is concerned he follows the foot-steps of the learned Acharyas (i.e., Vasubandhu and Dinnaga) who have proved and clarified Vijnaptimatrata. This settles the issue. Poussin and Wintemitz include him under Svatantrika-Yogachara school, according to Tibetan tradition. His authorship of Madhyamikalankara, even if proved, may not make him a Madhyamika, even as the authorship of Abhidharmakosha does not make Vasubandhu a Sarvastivadin. It may be an open question whether in his later years he inclined towards the Madhyamika school. In any case, Shantaraksita’s monumental work, Tattvasangraha reveals him as a Svatantra-Vijnanavadi and not as a Madhyamika or Madhyamika-Yogachara.

- Chandradhara Sharma, The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy


TLDR: Shantaraksita's criticisms in the Tattvasamgraha completely missed their mark and he failed to provide a response to Shankara's earlier refutation of his own school and doctrine.

Shankara remains the undefeated king of Indian philosophy

>>15974342
If you want a detailed BTFOing of Buddhism then here you go

>>15822877

Yes.

>"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."

Sri Shankaracharya - Brahma Sutra Bhasya 2.2.32.

>>15029395
This is from Shankara's Brahma Sutra Bhasya where he refutes various Buddhist doctrines

>>14662524
This image >>14662578 is from Shankara's commentary on the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. Pic related is a more lengthy refutation of Buddhist doctrines from Shankara's Brahma Sutra commentary. It was too long to compile into one image and so I had to make two separate images.