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Rediscovering ‘Sunyata’: Unifying Buddhism and Vedanta

opindia.com/2020/02/rediscover

Buddha was a great Vedantist (for was really only an offshoot of ), and Shankara is often called a “hidden .” Buddha made the analysis, Shankara made the synthesis out of it. never bowed down to anything—neither , nor caste, nor priest, nor custom. He fearlessly reasoned so far as the reason could take him. Such a fearless search for truth and such love for every living thing the world has never seen. was the Washington of the religious world; he conquered a throne only to give it to the world, as Washington did to the American people. He sought nothing for himself.

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