/lit/ - Literature

>>22127282
Garfield is okay but his running commentary is mostly aligned with the Tibetan Gelug and making some labored comparisons to Western ideas. Siderits and Katsura in their much more brief running commentary rely specifically Indian commentaries including Candrakirti (which Gelug school also uses) and Bhaviveka (who the Gelug do not use). Some of that is going to be meaningless to you without further knowledge of Tibetan doxography. Personally I prefer Siderits and Katsura as their running commentary is supplemental rather than nearly its own dissertation. Both are worth reading for completeness, though maybe not consecutively. You should also check out Aryadeva (tr. Sonam)

>Extremely attractive
>Generally pretty happy
Checks out.

>>18848309
This, don't even risk it. Even if you do find a non-glowy, chances are you are so steeped in your own head that you won't get along with whatever based and redpilled nigger you actually meet. Ride the tiger, but don't expect to make any friends up there.

>I despise Christians because they love men at close quarters. Only in the Sahara could I rediscover love.
>Tears and Saints, p. 64

>books about extremist opinion I have picked up
>anyone know any books about thing I already agree with
>can someone recommend books defending my latest zinger against well-adjusted people
>looking for books about the made up thing I want other people to buy into

>>17218985
That is one poster misunderstanding another poster! That American culture makes constant reflexive references to Protestant theology even though nobody goes to church is a given; this also carries over into attitudes towards Buddhism wherein a pattern of thinking emerges which assumes Theravada is the supposed original Buddhism because it has the King James Pitaka and no catholicized additives. This is of course not even true because 1. both Theravadins and Mahayanists trace their teachings back to a similar body of texts which are found in the Pali Canon, 2. the Pali Canon did not create the texts, it codified them (research the sutras found in the 20th century in Central Asia dating from the Gandhara period, these are basically the Dead Seas Scrolls of Buddhism in terms of scholarly impact), and 3. Theravada is full of commentarial literature, it just doesn't consider it to have been revealed by bodhisattva saints or suprahumans post-Sakyamuni Buddha. (Yet ACTUAL Protestants allow for people like Luther or Calvin to have come along to reform Christian teaching, but that would require Americans know European history before WW2; Americans are hyperprotestant, refering to a protestantism that does not exist).