/lit/ - Literature

Whats your take? Whats the practical take away?
Should I just be a Buddhist?

>>14616593
Also beware, Guenon's primary disciple Frithjof Schuon is a bit of a weirdo -

On October 11th 1991, Frithjof Schuon, the leader of an international religious order, was indicted on the felony charge of child molestation. committed under "cult pressure and influence". The indictment, passed down by a five member Grand Jury, headed by Lucy Cherbas, stated:

"that Frithjof Schuon... did perform fondling or touching [on three girls] 15 years of age, 14 years of age and 13 years of age, respectively, with the intent to arouse or satisfy sexual desires of Frithjof Schuon, in violation of I.C. 35-42 43. [And that] said persons were compelled to submit to touching by force or imminent threat of force, to wit: by undue cult influences and cult pressures, in violation of 35-42-4-8."

Jesus Garcia Varela, a high ranking inner circle member of the cult, had been investigated by the Louisville Police in 1991 for nude photos of his 2 young daughters. He escaped prosecution of this episode by claiming that it was a common practice in Spain to visually record a girl's puberty.

Michael Fitzgerald's son was present at the Gatherings. The boy, then perhaps 14, had been made to watch his mother and her sister, Jennifer Casey, dance nude for Schuon at one of the Gatherings.

Perennialists are basically Theosophy mixed with Neovedanta (which is mostly just Mahayana Buddhism with a few slight changes), so if they wrote on Shintoism it would still be from that perspective anyway. If you want to read about real Shintoism you should probably read a book not written by a Theosophist/Perennialist.

Reminder that all scholars and most Hindus think Shankara was a cryptobuddhist.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-flP1H-TYQ

>>14490318
>But I AM right though!
>You realize you can't just repeat "I'm right! I'm right!," right? How do we know you're right?
>Because I AM!

Ah.. Well, that settles it then. Why are cultists at their most vociferous on the internet?

Pic related, even some of the most prominent nondualist philosophers and historians of philosophy in India say that Shankara and Gaudapada substantially ripped off Buddhism. Watch the Guenon cultist freak out over it some more.

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

Reminder that "but muh Upanishads mention monism!" is not a response to this. 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.

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

Reminder that "but muh Upanishads mention monism!" is not a response to this. 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.

>>14454094

No, because Guenon is heavily reliant on Shankara, who is generally regarded by Hindus and by scholars as a crypto-Buddhist. You should look into Ramanuja or Madhva instead.

>>14429065
Daily hindu troll meme on buddhist thread

REMINDER: Over a thousand years of Hindus, and modern mainstream scholars (both Hindu and Western) largely agree that Shankara's philosophy is "crypto-Buddhism," reliant on Buddhist epistemological idealism ca. Nagarjuna, and is in fact not faithful to the Upanishads at all.

The OP is a theosophist and wikiperennialist who would be considered dangerously heretical by most Hindus today. He knows nothing about real Hinduism. Don't listen to his lies!

Reminder that Shankara and his teacher Gaudapada were massively influenced by Nagarjuna, and Shankara has been considered a "crypto-Buddhist" by his fellow Hindus for over a thousand years, and mainstream scholarly opinion agrees

>>14390475
The post you're linking to was me. All I said there was that I will reply to every one of your shill threads with this image that makes you sperg out every time, and call you a neovedantist (because you are one). I haven't posted it at all since last night, because I went to bed. Now I wake up and you've made like a dozen threads overnight, so fuck that. You win dude, enjoy spamming /lit/.

I even tried talking to you directly yesterday and asking, real talk, why you do this. You replied with "cope cringe seethe" and refused to engage. I may be autistic but I'm not Guenonfag autistic, jesus christ.

Saging this shit thread, which of course you also made. Here's the pic so you can sperg out about it I guess. Neovedantist.

More accurate would be Buddha on top of Shankara and Guenon. Shankara has been called a "crypto Buddhist" in India for over a thousand years.

Most Hindus throughout Indian history have thought Shankara was a "crypto-Buddhist"

Most mainstream scholars think Shankara was a "crypto-Buddhist"

The only people who think otherwise are
(1) Guenonfag
(2) The neovedantist and theosophical sources Guenonfag relies on

Daily reminder that most Hindus think Shankara is a crypto-Buddhist, and that no Guenonfag is a neovedantist who would be hated by all real Hindus for worshipping a French Islamist