/lit/ - Literature

>>3589256

>two truths

Nagarjuna's two truths never denies karuna or other positive emotions. I would see two truths more as a form of fictionalism not nihilism, see Jay Garfield's work on this.

>Also, hagiographies are not biographies.

True, but they can tell us about the philosophical system the saint is expounding. The point here is that the Buddha could have remained in nirvanic bliss for those years, but he chose to teach out of compassion. A nihilist would not work hard for 40 something years to start a new religion, he would just dwell in nihilistic bliss - whatever that is.

I'm planning on living in a thai forest monastery
preferably the one with the tigers