/lit/ - Literature

>>17787966
>Shankara is essentially just 'Buddhism but God too'
Complete nonsense, Shankara rejects every single premise of Buddhism, even the stuff that appears similar in both schools like the two truths means something very different in Advaita and Buddhism, Advaita holds that absolute reality actually exists and possesses its own existence for one. Shankara so thoroughly refuted Buddhism and pointed how how much it is an illogical teaching that Buddhists can only cope by accusing him of being Buddhist, they don't even both trying to refute his arguments against Buddhism and no-Self because his arguments expose Buddhism as a bunch of sophistry so they're rather try gaslight everyone instead by pretending Advaita is Buddhism as deflection when people mention how Shankara btfo Buddhist doctrines like dependent origination and no-self.
>Advaita is all a giant cope to preserve traditional Vedic Aryan theism under a more refined philosophy and pea brained traditionalist incels buy that shit hook line and sinker
It's talked about in the pre-Buddhist Upanishads, Buddhism is a metaphysically-poor imitation of this pre-existing teaching. In comparison to the Upanishads, Buddhism is largely just vacuous moralism and pointless skepticism.
>>17788210
I have not read him yet but my intuition is that Suhrawardi did, he was steeped both in Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism but he still arrived at an Advaita-like conception of awareness or consciousness being a non-dual light that transcends or is anterior to the distinctions of subject and object. There are some passages of the Enneads where Plotinus speaks about the self or autos as being one with the One, but the general trend of the Enneads does not seem to be an Advaita-style non-dualism, some authors like Coomaraswamy have written about Plotinus as being in agreement with Advaita, although for example in "The Shape of Ancient Thought" by McEvilley he says Plotinus is generally closer to Vishishtadvaita.