/lit/ - Literature

>>21397260
This isn’t the worst cross-cultural philosophical analogy you could make, I think. The Sophists favored considerations of relativity, reminding us all we have access to are uncertain phenomena in a transitory world, and applying radical skepticism to all philosophical and theological claims, whereas the Platonists sought a firm grounding of thought in Absoluteness, such as the realm of Forms beyond the changing flux of transitory, phenomenal reality, or in the Logos.

>But the attempt by Trads to larp as if Buddhism is reconcilable to any other religion via the assertion that anatta is just apophatic theology seems absurd.

This is in fact why Guenon didn’t include Buddhism so prominently in his Traditionalism, and in fact portrayed it as a degenerate offshoot of Tradition in the form of Hinduism, also seeing the anatta (no self) teachings as explicitly anti-Traditional. However, later in his life, he is held to have turned back on this but ironically by having considered it possible the Buddha did not originally teach anatta (no self) but instead had his teachings corrupted by later Buddhists, making it possible original Buddhism is “Traditional” per his conception.

However, Coomaraswamy, whom you also bring up, was much more explicitly positive in his appraisal of Buddhism, writing in his book “Hinduism and Buddhism”:

>The more superficially one studies Buddhism, the more it seems to differ from the Brahmanism in which it originated; the more profound our study, the more difficult it becomes to distinguish Buddhism from Brahmanism, or to say in what respects, if any, Buddhism is really unorthodox.

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http://turiya.vidya.hu/konyvtar/pdf/On%20the%20One%20and%20Only%20Transmigrant.pdf

>>14396058
>Sorry if thread is horrible and ignorant, but can someone "redpill me" on Vedas?
They are the relic of ancient Hyperborea and the culmination of the primordial wisdom tradition. They emanated like breathe from the Supreme Being himself.
>Apart from their value as historical and traditional texts, what of substance a modern Western man can find in Vedic literature, what knowledge is available from it that one could benefit from?
The Upanishads which are the fruit and crown-jewel of the Vedas show the way to moksha, and aside from that the Vedas contain some wonderful and inspiring devotional poetry, some of it with profound metaphysical implications as well
>Who created Vedas and over what period of time, what kind of culture?
modern hylic brainlet cucked materialist academics insist on misunderstanding the Vedas and saying "uuhh well it's the product of people who had different ideas and it comes from different cultures and muh reaction against muh evil brahamic heirachy etc" and similar nonsense. In truth the Vedas and Upanishads are all part of the same divine revelation revealed to ancient Aryan sages. Read AK Coomaraswamy's book "Perception of the Vedas" for the actual red-pill on the Vedas and to see how from the very earliest layer of the Vedas in the mantras the same primordial wisdom doctrine was already contained and expressed poetically, slowly becoming more explicit as one progresses to the later layers culminating in the Upanishads.

https://archive.org/details/PerceptionOfTheVedasAnandComaraswamy

Who is the best Traditionalist after Guenon? I nominate Coomaraswamy. He seems to take the same view as Guenon and Schuon but with way more citations and interesting footnotes. I like that he goes deeper into Christian mysticism and Neoplatonism too.