/lit/ - Literature

>>17239686
They were unable to. They had to wait a millennia for Buddhism to die out and proclaim victory. To this day Hindus falsely believe a medieval crypto-buddhist philosopher who has never debated a single buddhist somehow ‘defeated’ Buddhism. Yes they are that delusional.

>>17239689
Buddhism still exists

>>17239697
I meant in the subcontinent as the main force

>>17239689
Makes sense, but who's this philosopher?

>>17239686
They didn't need too, it died out on its own just like it will in the rest of Asia.

>>17239890
some irrelevant pajeet named Shankara who held internally inconsistent ideas and had to co-opt Buddhist thought to attract followers to his cult

>>17239686
Because Buddhism was a response to Hinduism and Jainism and addressed their respective shortcomings in an eloquent and efficient manner.

>>17239686
Buddism became some new age bullshit for soccermoms and boomers who want mindfulness (tm) or just irrelevant and replaced by local sects in asia.
While Hinduism and Jainism prosper eternally for thousands of years.
It was disabled and unseated from the start being the puppet project of ashoka and kushans.

>>17240057
>500 million followers
>main religion in almost all of SEA
>"irrelevant"
lmao

>>17240057
isn't TM a hindu thing?

>>17239686
Because Shankara is a blatant rip-off with added blatant inconsistencies.

>>17240057
oh yeah there's never been cringe new-age white boomers who LARPed as Hindus and even visited India after doing lots of drugs...Hinduism is so based and trad!

>>17239686
through the brilliance of one man and his refutations of Buddhist doctrine

to this day they still cope by trying to attack the messenger instead of addressing his dozens of observations about Buddhism being illogical

>>17240321
cringe...

>>17240202
>added blatant inconsistencies.
Unlike Buddhism, there are no internal inconsistencies in Advaita, it is perfect, flawless, complete

>>17240423
>can't even explain the advaitin paradox of multiplicity arising from unity
Well that was easy

>>17240321
I would be careful about reading Advaita Vedanta interpretations such as Shankara's as a commentary to the Upanishads, they are extremely reliant on Buddhist philosophy (Shankara is called a "cryptobuddhist" by most Hindus, and most scholars agree). If you want to read the Upanishads, work through them with editions and commentaries that aren't sectarian, or at least read an interpretation that is closer to the original meaning of the Upanishads, rather than Shankara's 9th century AD quasi-buddhism.

>>17240457
Doesn't matter, buddha is still refuted and is currently being torn to pieces in hell

>>17240466
cringe

>>17240447
>advaitin paradox of multiplicity arising from unity
There is no paradox, God or Brahman is the uncaused foundation of everything. Multiplicity never actually emerges into existence as a distinct change as in emanationism but is only sustained as a virtual appearance in consciousness through Brahman's omniscient use of his power, thereby there is no contradiction or problem

>>17240498
>It's not a problem because we advaitins wave it away.

>>17240854
you didn't explain why or how multiplicity arising was a contradiction to begin with

>leave the Advaitins to me

>>17240922
CHADgarjuna... I kneel...

friendship ENDED with buddha, my brotherhood with SHANKARA begins now

>>17241009
I would be careful...

One word: Islam. Buddhism was fine in India until the Muslim invasions wrecked it all.

>>17241054
>invasions lead to the destruction of important scriptures
>as a consequence, only one tradition which would later become theravada manages to avoid annihilation
>thus the dharma becomes diluted, less pure, loses in popularity, paving the way for Maitreya's arrival
You know, Siddartha predicted all this.

>>17241054
Based. Islam saved India from materialistic buddhist autism.

>makes advaitins, muslims and christians seethe uncontrollably just by existing
based

>>17239686
I read the Bhagavad Gita and I'm still not sure what the fuck Hindus even believe. Seems more like a mythology than a religion.

>>17241255
>Seems more like a mythology than a religion.
Maybe the most retarded thing ive seen on lit

>>17241283
I would argue that a religion has a spiritual/metaphysical component bound by a dogma of teachings to live by. I don't see what the fundamental teachings of Hinduism are.

>>17239686
fanfiction wars are so fucking tiresome
religious containment board WHEN

>>17241336
It's called /his/ and it's garbage overrun with christcucks

>>17241408
poor baby gonna cry?

>>17241475
Don't you have a dead jew to worship?

>>17241482
aww bloo bloo cry tranny :)