/lit/ - Literature

Everyone ignore the theosophy shill, he is attracted to these threads like a fly to honey driven by his burning desire to avenge Blavatsky, he was a recurring character when OP was posting these threads several months ago. He seems even more angry and unhinged than he did before.

>>11057114
Buddhism has not really degenerated. There are some east Asian schools that have become too 'religious' and some Theravada schools may have become a little too westernized in thought but there are still tens of millions of practicing Traditional Buddhists. Tibetian Buddhism was massively influenced by several different branches of Hindu thought, and Zen and Chan Buddhism were massively influenced by Daoism and Confucianism. Despite being ostensibly a rejection of Vedic teachings Buddha (who had studied Vedic texts) taught many of the same ideas, A. Coomaraswamy goes so far as to argue he even taught the same metaphysics but with a different emphasis. The branches that have been influenced by Hinduism, Daoism etc are still thoroughly traditional, Tibetian Buddhism is rife with crypto non-dualism etc.

>>11059064
that's totally fine