Advaita and Buddhism

[Vidyasankar Sundaresan]

>
>I admit that I’m following the interpretation of TRV Murti and V
>Bhattacharya with regard to the Madhyamaka. Ofcourse, as you point out,
even
>claiming that reality is absolute would ultimately be classified as a
“view”
>and thus make NAgArjuna shy away from it.
>

See Paul Williams's "Mahayana Buddhism: The doctrinal foundations" in the
Library of Religious Beliefs and Practices Series published by Routledge.
It's an almost impossible achievement by the author, to have presented a
vast subject in just about 300 pages, and yet to have succeeded in being
almost encyclopedic in his coverage. There is no discussion of
upanishadic/vedAntic influence, but one can get a very good idea of the
original source material of the Mahayana.

Vidyasankar