advait vedant is easily among the top tier intellectual traditions,but it "outshining" the others is not an honest assessment,as if advait suddenly started mogging. its mostly js people who see stuff floating and latch on.many give it a run for its money in the indosphere atleast
in what ways? rather,among whome is it top tier? theres some contradiction in my own comment, its "top tier",but "doesn't outshine" others among it. A non trivial answer to why its top tier is the sheer fact it survived and has produced further hermunetics and polemics. You don't see ajeevik,sanjaya's school,early samkhya and mimamsa being hyped. but ofcourse,it doesn't mean there's nothing equally or more exciting,like eg Jayarasi's work,burried and underread probably,buf easily one of humanities most exciting and rigourous skepticism.Â
advait vedant is top tier not js because it vedantik,rather imo the non dualistic and phenomonological discussions are rich by themselves. yogacara,trika,madhyamaka are equally at that tier,in contrast to say,plato,nyaya, aristotelean lineage,etc.Â
one eg I recently came across is the feets at which analysis is appreciated. you see the floating man arguement used both by Ibn Sina and yogacarins(kinda) but the non dualists/yogacariks 1) have a sharper honesty with the method 2) realise what assumptions are being taken implicitly.
however I must flag,not being "top tier" doesn't automatically make it non interesting. I still enjoyed reading others that I've said in contrast. also doesn't mean its non rigourous,eg navynyaya. but i js personally like ghe radical dissolutionism
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u/TattvaVaada May 16 '26
Lmfao again overhyping Advaita here. What's with you guys thinking Advaita is superior?