[Advaita-l] Upanishads, Samkhya and Buddhism

[Murali Karamchedu]

>I am interested in aspects of Buddhism that have grown out of the earlier 
>two systems - ideas that
>might have given birth to early Buddhist categories of thought. For 
>instance, karma and rebirth,
>whatever their origins, gave rise to these concepts within Buddhism albeit 
>with intention as a
>substantial difference and allusions to nonduality was seen in the Creation 
>Myth of the Vedas.

Writings of Ananda Coomaraswamy are an excellent resource for such 
comparative study; one book that
particularly covers your interest is "Buddha and the Gospel of Buddhism", 
published by Munshiram Manoharlal (ISBN: 81-215-0096-6, Amazon link: 
http://www.amazon.com/Buddha-Gospel-Buddhism-Ananda-Coomaraswamy/dp/1846647398/ref=sr_1_3/102-8375464-6942508?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187191432&sr=1-3 
).

Part III of the book focuses on Vedanta, Samkhya, Yoga and 'Buddhism and 
Brahminism'.

Hope this helps.

Best,
Murali Manohar