[INDOLOGY] Crypto-Hindu and crypto-Buddhist

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Interestingly, Buddha himself is considered as Vishnu in disguise in
the 'Hindu' books which enlist Buddha as one of the avatAras of Vishnu.

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 1:27 AM, Nityanand Misra <nmisra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> Quote
> 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.
> Unquote
>
> The chapter is available under http://www.wisdomlib.org/
> hinduism/book/a-history-of-indian-philosophy-volume-3/d/doc7601.html
>
>
> 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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Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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