Why did Guenon pick Advaita Vedanta as the school that best expressed the perennial truth? Why didn't he for example say that the perennial tradition and religious esoterism really lead to Christianity, Taoism or Buddhism for instance?
Why did Guenon pick Advaita Vedanta as the school that best expressed the perennial truth...
Dominic Morris
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Cooper Miller
It was the strictest system with the least amount of deviations from the principles of Tradition.
Kayden Nguyen
Because he's a retard, you're a retard, and neither of you understand Buddhism or Taoism.
Learning about Asian religions from 19th century Europeans is the most idiotic thing you can do.
Jason Diaz
>Because he's a retard, you're a retard, and neither of you understand Buddhism or Taoism.
Whoa! calm down man, I was just asking a question...
Bentley Ward
This.
Caste systems are the perfect tool to ensure a stable live for culture and tradition, even if the lowest suffer.
Gabriel Thomas
>Learning about Asian religions from 19th century Europeans is the most idiotic thing you can do.
Too bad they didn't do that. Most Buddhists are wrong about Buddhism too.
Brayden Flores
thats not the point you conservative retard
Daniel Davis
Guenon and Evola are literally that, and they relied on bad translations to make baseless, wrong interpretations. Asian Buddhists understand their religion better than these esotericists.
Adam Mitchell
That's idiotic. It literally just keeps power in the hands of the most privileged. That's about domination, not culture.
Easton Stewart
>Guénon
You mean Abd al-Wâhid Yahyâ?
Isaiah Jackson
>implying farmers suffer and that most of them aren't happily content and work less hours than modern wage slaves
Cameron Hughes
Guenon was initiated into a Vientnamese Taoist triad and understood Taoism better than internet LARPers like you ever will
>Guenon and Evola are literally that, and they relied on bad translations to make baseless, wrong interpretations.
No he didn't you retard, Guenon could read Sanskrit and Chinese
Jonathan Evans
>in the hands of those who are most worthy and who wield it best
fixed
Chase Reyes
>That's idiotic. It literally just keeps power in the hands of the most privileged. That's about domination, not culture.
Andrew Thomas
>Vientnamese Taoist
Vietnamese never really had great mystical/religious traditions.
Asher James
Guenon was the exact opposite of an orientalist. He was a language genius able to speak dozens of ancient languages including Sanskrit. All of his knowledge of ancient religions is first hand.
Jaxson Perez
The existence of Taoist Triads of an initiatic character with Chinese roots all throughout Vietnam was well documented and studied by the French colonial authorities, who often made comparisons to masonry back in Europe
Jaxson Cox
>dozens
Really? Name one dozen of those languages.
Elijah Foster
>Germans and Anglos were the only ones to value intellectual integrity when studying the traditions of other cultures
Connor Clark
Coomaraswamy spoke/read dozens, Guenon could do so for around 10
>René (Jean-Marie-Joseph) Guénon was born in 1886 in Blois, France. He obtained degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy, taught for some years in Paris and, during the war, in Algeria. Early in his life, he dominated the Greek, Latin, English, Italian, German, Spanish, Sanskrit, Hebraic, Arabic and later, Chinese languages. Surprising European and Orientals, he maintained conversation with his interlocutors in their own language, mastering both the language and the spirit of distant civilizations.
William Hernandez
That's six ancient languages, which is half of one dozen
Aaron Long
I was correcting the other poster, who evidently confused Coomaraswamy (who could actually read 20+) and Guenon
Lucas Torres
>who could actually read 20+
insane if true
Isaiah Hughes
That's all i could find:
Greek, Latin, English, Italian, German, French, Spanish, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Hebraic, classical Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Mandarin, classical Chinese.
Evan Edwards
seething
Jaxon Wood
because its the final red-pill
Henry Young
why did he delete his post, was it out of embarrassment?