The Absolute Experience

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Lewis wrote:

Re: The Absolute Experience

 

 

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>

> Hi Stefan,

> Sankara takes the same view in

> dealing with Buddhist Idealism

> (Vijnanavada) in Brahma Sutra Bhyasa

> II.ii.28. He rejects the notion of the

> perceiving of perception. If you are

> interested in the whole section I

scanned

> it

> http://homepage.eircom.net/

> ~ombhurbhuva/vijnanavada1.htm

>

> Why does it keep coming back? I think

> that it may appeal as a short cut to

'all

> is consciousness'

>

> Michael

 

Hi Michael,

 

Could you provided the citation for the

scanned page?

It would be helpful.

 

Also, after reading the scanned

information, I

wondered if the change from " Vijnavadin "

to " Buddhist "

was in the orginal text? Is it that change

in the

original text?

 

Being somewhat familiar with the

Vijnanavada/Yogachara

and Madhyamika schools of thought, it

seemed somewhat

odd that " Buddhist " would be used since

the two

schools mentioned above are at odds with

each other as

well as at odds with Sankara's Vedantin

who is

debating a " Vijnavadin - Budhhist " and not

a " Buddhist

in general " or " Madhyamikan. "

 

Lewis

 

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Hi Lewis,

That translation of the Brahma

Sutra Bhasya is by Swami Gambhirananda,

publ. by Advaita Asrama, 1972. pgs.418-

422.

 

Throughout section II he refutes various

views, Jaina, Samkhya, Yoga, Vaisesika

and also Buddhist realist and idealist

schools as also those scholiasts of the

void, the shunyata/madhamika

philosophers.

 

The Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre in (Madras)

Chennai is a good source

 

http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/books/el

ist.asp?ProductType=MA11

 

of all these texts at advantageous prices.

 

Best wishes, Michael.

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Nisargadatta , ombhurbhuva <ombhurbhuva@e...> wrote:

 

 

Hi Michael,

 

Could you provided the citation for the

scanned page? It would be helpful.

 

Also, after reading the scanned information, I wondered if the change

from " Vijnavadin " to " Buddhist " was in the orginal text? Is it that

change in the original text?

 

Being somewhat familiar with the Vijnanavada/Yogachara

and Madhyamika schools of thought, it seemed somewhat

odd that " Buddhist " would be used since the two

schools mentioned above are at odds with each other as

well as at odds with Sankara's Vedantin who is

debating a " Vijnavadin - Budhhist " and not a " Buddhist

in general " or " Madhyamikan. "

 

Lewis

 

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

Hi Lewis,

That translation of the Brahma

Sutra Bhasya is by Swami Gambhirananda,

publ. by Advaita Asrama, 1972. pgs.418-

422.

 

Throughout section II he refutes various

views, Jaina, Samkhya, Yoga, Vaisesika

and also Buddhist realist and idealist

schools as also those scholiasts of the

void, the shunyata/madhamika

philosophers.

 

The Ramakrishna Vedanta Centre in (Madras)

Chennai is a good source

 

http://www.sriramakrishnamath.org/books/el

ist.asp?ProductType=MA11

 

of all these texts at advantageous prices.

 

Best wishes, Michael.

 

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Hi Michael,

 

Thank you, for the citation.

 

I do not have that text at hand at the moment, so could you please

answer the question asked above:

 

" ....after reading the scanned information, I wondered if the change

from " Vijnavadin " to " Buddhist " was in the orginal text. Is it that

change in the original text? "

 

Have you read Ramanuja refutation of Sankara?

 

See: http://www.geocities.com/advaitavedant/ramanuja.htm

 

or the basic Mahayana Buddhist Refutations of Atman/Brahman at:

 

http://www.geocities.com/advaitavedant/contratman.htm

 

or Bhikkhu Bodhi's refutation of Mahayana Buddhism and Advaita?

 

See: http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/news/essay27.html

 

None of these are needed to do so. It is easily done in few words.

 

Lewis