[Advaita-l] Fwd: {भारतीयविद्वत्परिषत्} Aum in Buddhism

[V Subrahmanian]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 1:02 PM Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Apr 2020, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Krishna Kashyap <kkashyap2011 at gmail.com>
> >
> > My Buddhist friend Dhammaputta wrote to me regarding this:
> > Prof. Deshpande is right.
> > There is no reference to  "Om"  in  Pali  Buddhism.
> >
> > Mahayana  Sutras  &  Vajrayana  Tantras,  yes  indeed
> > Theravada  says  Mahayana  is  Hinduism  in  the  guise  of  Buddhism
> > The irony is  that  non-Advaita  Hindus  say  Advaita  is  Mahayana
> > Buddhism  in  the  guise  of  Hinduism
> >
>
> Some time back on this list we discussed the Buddhist scholar Bhavya, who
> is one of the earliest writers of any school to mention Vedanta.  While
> the bulk of his works refute "heretic" (from his point of view) darshanas,
> one part defends his brand of Mahayana from other Buddhists.  One of their
> criticisms he says is that Mahayana is "prachanna Vedanta"!
>

This is interesting Jaldhar ji, if you could give the reference for such a
saying by him.

regards


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