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(Quote) Certainly, not necessarily. When I referred to these kinds of Buddhisms "deifying the perceiver" that is my own language that I am putting on them. Unless we are talking about tantr… (View Post)
(Quote) Many who say that all is mind come from the cittamātratā (consciousness-alone) schools of Buddhism. They say that consciousness is twofold: we have 1) discursive consciousness, and 2) conscio… (View Post)
Many contemporary Hindus today consider in-the-present creation via the trimurti. Brahmā creates, Viṣṇu upholds, Śiva destroys. The "upholding" is what is relevant here. Viṣṇu's name means … (View Post)
(Quote) In the view of god's creation, there need not be a beginning ex nihilo, many of the Śaivists and Viṣṇaivists that Buddhists of the past debated with, all of them ardent theists and proponents… (View Post)
The view that one sentient being dreams up, thinks up, or creates, the world, is 有神論的決定論, महेश्वरस्यनिर्माणदृष्टि, maheśvarasyanirmāṇadṛṣṭi, or god's-creation-view. Ironically, though, the abo… (View Post)