[Advaita-l] Sankara's praise of Buddha

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2011/9/22 D.V.N.Sarma డి.వి.ఎన్.శర్మ <dvnsarma at gmail.com>

> We are discussing whether Buddha the founder of Buddhism
> is one and the same as the one inducted into Dasavatars.
>

OK.
I was talking the same.


> I think the people contributing to the discussion have been trying
> to equate the two .


So, I was opposing.


> If the puranic Buddha (the one enumerated in
> dasavatars) is not the same one there is no meaning in bringing in
> the Sankara's criticism of Buddhism.


Even then refutation of buddhism is useful because teachings of both
buddha-s are opposed to veda-s.


> Neither is there any meaning
> in saying that his teaching to discard vedic rituals is to decieve asuras.
>

You are saying this because you think purANa-s are useless imaginations.
If this is so, then why are you considering buddha of purANa-s.
If that's not the case, then you can easily understand why those teachings
are there in purANa-s.


> By the way this is the only avatara in which God teaches untruth.
> We have made the God teach untruth to suit our convictions and convenience.
>

It clearly shows that you have no faith in words of purANa-s.
So, please don't engage in useless controversy of sameness of buddha-s.
You will either end in proving popular buddha imagined or devoid of it's
popular image.


> If they are not the same the same the question arises who is this puranic
> Buddha.
>

See another thread dealing with paurANika-buddha. It was made clear there.