/lit/ - Literature

This is perhaps a ridiculous thing to say but once when I went to idea I met a priest at a local Hindu temple in Delhi. I was overwhelmed by the energy or aura (I know, bear with me) around him. It was like looking at space and realizing how incredibly small you are and yet how incredibly important you are. It's been many years but I still think about that Hindu priest I met for only 5 minutes. Anyway, is there any writings on this phenomenon?
It was so dream-like yet the feeling I had was undoubtedly real.

>>14541322
Are you talking about something similar to deja vu or soulmates/love at first sight? Did you talk to him?

>>14541322
You should have kissed him and got married.

>>14541201
Does anyone have a good introduction to Buddhism, preferably written by a mahayanist or vajrayanist?
I'm not asking for myself, I took a sort of indirect and all over the place approach, and so when people ask me where to start with Buddhism, I never know what to say.
It would be good if it talked about things like
>the story of the Buddha
>four noble truths
>noble eightfold path
>four dharma seals
>dependent origination
>shunyata
At least in some capacity. Is there such a book?

>>14541613
What The Buddha Taught is pretty good and covers most of that but is Theravadin

>>14541322

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaktipat

Reminder that Shankara has been called a crypto-Buddhist by other Hindus for over a thousand years, and most mainstream scholars today agree with this assessment.

Shankara not only appropriated the whole framework of Nagarjuna's Buddhism, his "teacher's teacher," the earliest recorded Advaitin, Gaudapada, is widely considered to have outright PLAGIARIZED Nagarjuna.

>’eastern thought’
>rene guenon
hey isn’t there already a Guenon general in the catalog? Why the spam?

>>14541322
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-tWecVxm1o

>>14541322
That was the smell, anon.

>>14541322
That’s how stupid white whamen are raped by gurus. Anon is lucky he escaped with his anus intact.

What's the best translation of Abhinavagupta's Tantraloka?

>>14541884
probably because the other thread will get deleted/archived soon so guenonfag has to resort to his old formula of inserting guenon in an 'eastern thought' general. Pic related

>>14541997
keep seething all you want hylic but it won't make a differnece, we will continue to discuss Rene Guenon (pbuh) regardless of your autism

>>14541322
You were probably high on mushrooms you western Hindu larding trash.

>>14541997
>guenonfag? never heard of him

>>14541499
No, not like soulmates. It was like meeting someone who was genuinely enlightened. Like he was complete and existing outside the mundane.
I did, he was very charismatic. I spoke to him in broken Hindi but it seemed like he knew what I was trying to say. He tied a Mauli thread around my wrist and gave me his blessings.
>>14541739
Thanks anon, I'll read this article for sure. The energy around that man was sublime

>>14541957
This one is pricey but is complete/unabridged, has a pretty thorough introduction which reviews a lot of the ideas, and is the product of a team effort by a professor and a Swami.

https://www.amazon.com/Sri-Tantraloka-Set-Five-Volumes/dp/8186117288/

>>14541201
Are we to actually believe in these many handed gods or are they just metaphors?

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