[Advaita-l] Multiple levels of reality.

[Kalyan K]

Granted that there may be buddhists who might have used this before
nAgArjuna (though I am not aware of any). But the point is that there is no
evidence to show that vedAntins were using this concept before the
buddhists.


Regards
Kalyan


On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Srikanta Narayanaswami <
srikanta.narayanaswami at yahoo.com> wrote:

> It is said nagarjuna was the first to use the concept of "Multiple levels
> of reaity".But,actually this concept was started by the Mahayana school
> much before Nagarjuna.After the  Ist Buddhist council under
> Kanishka,Buddhism was divided into Hinayana and the mahayana school.The
> Hinayana school held the "Sarvastitva vada" which says that all things
> exist.It is said that the "Mulamadhayamaka karika' was given to Nagarjuna
> by the naga chieften.
> N.Srikanta.
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