/lit/ - Literature

>>20832518
>Any recommendations for things I should instead read?

>>20810143
Because CHADVAITA VEDANTA is an unsurpassed, supreme, irrefutable, most most excellent, perfectly consistent, sublime, elegant, divinely-revealed truth that best conforms to the meaning of the Upanishadic scripture and which is the final red-pill and final end-game of all metaphysics philosophy and religion!!!!!

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>>20795868
PBUH

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>>20764247
>What should I read to learn about "knowledge of self"?
the greatest authority on the subject of course! see pic related

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>>20750043

>>20733130
have you tried reading Adi Shankara's commentaries?

>>20668421
>What I am looking for is /lit/ that basically categorically proves the existence of an "I" or dismantles Buddhism's arguments against the existence of an "I" if such a thing exists.
Adi Shankara does that throughout his works (pic related); other books that criticize or refute buddhist doctrines or talk about people who did include: "An Evaluation of the Vedantic Critique of Buddhism" by Gregory Darling, "A Hindu Critique of Buddhist Epistemology" by John Taber, "Buddhist Illogic" by Avi Sion "Why I Am Not A Buddhist" by Evan Thompson, "Emptiness Appraised" by David Burton, "Relation as Real : A Critique of Dharmakirti" by Raghunath Ghosh, also the book of essays called "Self No-Self: Perspective From Indian Traditions" has articles in it critiquing and refuting Buddhist philosophy of mind from a Vedantic and Tantric perspective

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>>20652009
PBUH

>>20638518
then start with the Indians

>>20639118
>Has /lit/ ever read Hindu books?
yes this is a /lit/ chart for studying the Advaita school of Hindu teachings

>>20631937
this chart is for the advaita school only

>>20595197
Advaita-Vedanta

>>20596149
you finally read him?

>>20583692
>Can someone tell me where I can actually read about Shankara?
see pic related for his works and secondary sources and I also recommend the article at the stanford.edu link the other anon already posted

>>20582395
> Also, what english translations of Shankara's works do you recommend?
pic related

I think Winthrop Sargents translation is barebones with no commentary and little/no notes but I could be remembering it wrong

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>>20534539
>i heard that kashmir shaivism is dead, although there are other paths like sri vydia, shakta
Not only Sri Vidya but most Vaishnavite and Shaivite sects are willing to initiate foreigners

>i wonder what guénon would have written if he had access to the writings of Vasubandhu, Nagarjuna or even Dogen.
Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna I think were translated by the time of his early books. I can’t find it now but there is some letter Guenon wrote to someone where he says that Nagarjuna is closer to the primordial tradition than most people realize, it would seem that Guenon viewed Nagarjuna under a Shentong interpretation, like how Jonang Buddhism interprets Nagarjuna.

I dont think that having access to a lot of Vasubandu’s or Asanga’s writings would have changed much, aside from making him more favorable to early Yogachara. The early-stage Yogachara of Asanga and Vasubandhu is openly Absolutist and teaches that Nirvana/Dharmakaya is an independently-existing eternal non-dual consciousness, just like the Upanishads also say so. The later-stage Yogachara of Dharmakirti and Dinnaga abandoned this Absolutism and turned into a subjective idealist system without any eternally existing Absolute. Shankara BTFO’s this latter-stage Yogachara of Dharmakirti and Dinnaga pretty hard in his works, which Guenon had read. Some of Shankara’s criticism’s also apply to the earlier Absolutist Yogachara of Asanga+Vasubandhu, although less of his arguments that refute Dharmakirti still apply to it. Chandradhar Sharma in his book ‘The Advaita Tradition in Indian Philosophy’ has a section where he carefully compares Advaita to the early Absolutist Yogachara and also the latter subjective idealist Yogachara. From the perspective of Advaita the early Absolutist Yogachara is less objectionable although there are still a few finer details in its metaphysics which Advaita says isn’t correct or which isn’t logical; even though they do get some stuff right. Guenon would have probably viewed this earlier Yogachara of Asanga+Vasubandhu as another way or approaching the primordial truth (even if imperfectly/incompletely), while rejecting the latter Yogachara of Dharmakirti and Dinnaga as a degeneration.

>His description of Advaita is not so orthodox, he mixes a lot with samkhya doctrine to 'fit' all the symbolism he found in other traditions
Do you have any example(s) of this? I have never heard anyone say that before about his presentation of eastern doctrines and I was curious what exactly you had in mind.

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>>20402594
>do you advise
yes
>how come
Because they contain Shankara’s commentaries on those texts, which bring to light their full glory and wonder. Those translations by the Ramakrishna order and their translations of his other works are the only comprehensive set of English translations of his works that Im aware of. Pic related is the guide to reading them

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