[Advaita-l] Buddha an avatar of Vishnu?

[V Subrahmanian]

The famous daśāvatāra stuti 'jaya jagadeeśa harey...' of Jayadeva
(Gitagovindam) contains a line for Buddhāvatara.  It says Buddha incarnated
to save the animals from being sacrificed (vedic).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCwfVCS9T88



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On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 9:48 PM, Venkatesh Murthy via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
>
> Dr. BR Ambedkar said Buddha is not a Avatar of Vishnu. Swamiji
> Jayendra Saraswati also gave statement to Hindus to not claim Buddha
> was Avatar of Vishnu and hurt Buddhist feelings.
>
> There are some political reasons for not claiming Buddha as Vishnu.
>
> But there are many places in Puranas Buddha is claimed as Avatar of
> Vishnu. In the extremely powerful prayer Narayana Kavacha we have to
> say every morning the Bhakta is praying to Buddha to protect him from
> madness of Pashanda mobs and gangs. Buddhastu Pashanda Gana Pramaadaat
> Paatu. When someone has to argue or fight with atheists, irreligious
> and mad people he has to pray to Buddha and then argue. He will win.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Kripa Shankar via Advaita-l
> <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
> > Namaste
> > ‎
> >  I hope I am not spamming the forum. I have another doubt. ‎
> >
> > The next long standing doubt that I have is about Buddha branded as an
> avatar of Vishnu ! The justification given for it is that - he wanted to
> delude the bad people (daityas?asuras?humans?...depending on different
> versions).
> >
> > Why delude the deluded? Vishnu is also called Hari which means the one
> who uplifts * anyone* from samsara. Why would he want to delude? Creatures
> are already deluded by their own nature, be it Devas Asuras humans or any
> other.
> > ‎
> > There is a story in Puranas. The Asuras, fond of conflicts, were
> bothering the Devas frequently. Upon investigation, the Devas concluded
> that it's due to the Vedas that Asuras were able to achieve their goals.
> Hence the Devas decided to snatch away the Vedic knowledge from the Asuras.
> While Shukracharya was away to do his tapasya, the Devas sent their agent,
> who assuming the form of Asura guru Shukracharya claimed that he came back
> from the tapasya early. Gaining the confidence of  the Asuras, he began to
> teach them concepts like Ahimsa(different from the Vedic context)  so that
> Asuras would be discouraged from taking up further conflicts. He also
> taught them that Vedas are deploreable and instead taught them some mumbo
> jumbo. (on a side note, the British taught us the same Ahimsa for the exact
> same purpose. They also taught us to starve to death:).
> > ‎
> > To me it seems like this story was superimposed on the fanciful
> justification of why Buddha was an Avatar of Vishnu. ‎Further there is no
> evidence of Buddha as an avatar of Vishnu in any scriptures.
> >
> > On the other hand we have ample evidence that Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa,
> the son of illustrious Parashara was an avatar of Vishnu. Vyasa is the
> actual 9th avatar of Vishnu! How did this come to be? Or is there any
> evidence to suggest that Buddha was an avatar of Vishnu? ‎
> > ‎
> > Regards ‎
> > Kripa ‎
> >
> > ‎---
> > Vyasaya Vishnu roopaya Vyasa  roopaya Vishnave
> > Namo vai Brahma nidhaye Vasishtaya namo namaha
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> -Venkatesh
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