[Buddha-l] Withdrawal of the senses

[Dan Lusthaus]

Richard,

>I would even say that
> the are some thinkers who can be interpreted as being quite similar to
> perrenialists. In other words, one can arrive at legitimate perennialist
> interpretations of some Indian thinkers.

Name one -- seriously.

>Nagarjuna, for example, lends
> himself to being interpreted that way (and to every other way one can
> imagine --- since he was not saying anything important, he can easily be
seen
> as saying everything that anyone thinks is important).

Nagarjuna does not privilege the One over many, mind over matter, universal
forms over concrete particulars, God over the mundane, or pretty much
anything else neoplatonists try to peddle. You'll have to come up with a
better example.

Dan Lusthaus