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>>18971159

"Advaitavada is found well-established in the Upanishads as their central teaching" - Chandradhar Sharma (pic related)

When Sharma says the Mahayana also elaborated their own version of non-dualism, he is saying that they took ideas from the Upanishads and made their own Buddhist version of it.

>>18485512
Sharma says that the extent of the influence was the way in which Gaudapada phrased some of his arguments, he doesn't say that Gaudapada took doctrines from Buddhism which were not already in the Upanishads, this latter point is what Sharma explicitly denies.

in this pic >>18485459 Sharma states that Gaudapada brings out the philosophical soundness of Vedanta over buddhism, and in pic related Sharma says that Advaita Vedanta is the central teaching of the Upanishads

>>18485504
>So Sharma has to claim that the philosophy of the Upanishads is identical with Mahayana Buddhism,
No, he is saying that some Mahayana appropriated ideas which already existed in the Upanishads, he isn't saying the Mahayana is identical to the Upanishads because he elsewhere condemns as incorrect Mahayana philosophers like Dharmakirti.

>because he admits that Advaita is practically identical with Mahayana
No he doesnt, he says that Buddhism is wrong for denying the Atman, and here in this pic >>18485477 he states that Gaudapada brings out the philosophical soundness of Vedanta over Buddhism

And Sharma himself clearly states in his books that Advaita is the philosophy of the Upanishads on numerous occasions, such as on the very first page in the introduction to his book "the Advaita Tradition" where he states "Advaitavada is
found well established in the Upanisads as their central teaching." see pic related