On Jul 12, 2007, at 10:27 PM, billy jim wrote:
By the way, too bad we couldn't look deeper into the issue of advaita and madhyamaka. John Arapura, McMaster University has replicated Heidegger's quest for the origins of metaphysical recognition by examining the foundations of Vedanta and Madhyamaka. It is a facinating inquiry into the difference between logos (Vac) as the self-revealing shruti of Brahman and dialectics as the analysis of the world from the midst of its own flux (santana).
Advaita vedanta is largely a reaction to Nagarjuna and the growing Buddha-dharma of that time. It's rather common these days to see the two confused (or even with Dzogchen for that matter) despite the very different Views and results. This is particularly common among perenniallists.
