[INDOLOGY] Crypto-Hindu and crypto-Buddhist

[Nityanand Misra]

Before Rāmānuja, it was Bhāskara who referred to *māyā-vādin*-s as
*bauddha-matāvalambin. *Please see Chapter XV (The Bhāskara School of
Philosophy) in A History of Indian Philosophy (Volume 3), where Dasgupta
writes

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Thus, at the very beginning of his commentary, he says that it aims at
refuting those who, hiding the real sense of the *sūtra*, have only
expressed their own opinions, and in other places also he speaks in very
strong terms against the commentator who holds the māyā doctrine and is a
Buddhist in his views[3].
[3] *sūtrā-bhiprāya-saṃvṛtyā svābhiprāyā-prakāśanāt, vyākhyātaṃ yair idam
śāstraṃ vyākhyeyaṃ tan-nivṛttaye*. Bhāskara’s Commentary, p. i.
Also “*ye tu bauddha-matāvalambino māyā-vādinas te’pi anena nyāyena
sūtra-kāreṇai’va nirastāḥ*.” Ibid. II. 2. 29.
In another place Śaṅkara is referred to as explaining views which were
really propounded by the Mahāyāna Buddhists—*vigītaṃ vicchinna-mūlaṃ
māhāyānika-bauddha-gāthitaṃ māyā-vādaṃ vyāvarṇayanto lokān vyāmohayanti*.
Ibid. 1. 4. 25.
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On 14 October 2016 at 20:28, Matthew Kapstein <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> The "crypto-Buddhist" charge against Śaṅkara is, I think, inspired by
> RamAnuja's
> (at least, I recall it as RamAnuja's) castigation of him as
> prachanna-bauddha, for
> which crypto-Buddhist is fair enough as a translation. I don't think that
> we find
> a similar emic notion of "crypto-Hindu," though there are some Buddhist
> polemics
> I know that may suggest this. Tibetan critics of Dol-po-pa's theory of
> "extrinsic
> emptiness" (Gzhan-stong), for instance, often condemn it as disguised
> sAMkhya or vedAnta,
> but I doubt that Ritzinger or Hodge had this in mind.
>
> best,
> Matthew
>
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
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