I agree with the broader point that :LIB: culture lionizes Buddhism in a way that is reductive and decontextualized, sort of the mirror image of how it vilifies socialism.
(That said, the swastika predates Buddhism by many thousands of years, so this is not really an effective way to make that point.)
Yes, but they took more than the symbol, the whole indo-aryan purity and whatever. Arguably stuff like this isn't part of buddhism, but there are also plenty of things that shouldn't be part of christianity that sort of come along for the ride.
I could go on, the Swastika is a buddhist symbol etc.
Are you trying to imply that is a bad thing somehow? It is also a Hindu symbol. You'll see t absolutely everywhere in India. Temples. trucks, doors, everything has swastikas on it
IIRC Nietzsche had a more favorable view towards Buddhism than Christianity, although his exposure to it was largely through Schopenhauer and there were only bad translations available at the time.
SEP has various articles on Buddhism. Although there isn't much interaction between "western" and "eastern" philosophy for a variety of reasons (such as translation and differences in methodology), there is more than enough English-language stuff available for a lifetime of reading if that's what you're into.
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I agree with the broader point that :LIB: culture lionizes Buddhism in a way that is reductive and decontextualized, sort of the mirror image of how it vilifies socialism.
(That said, the swastika predates Buddhism by many thousands of years, so this is not really an effective way to make that point.)
The swastika was a pretty universal symbol. It's not exactly complicated geometry.
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Yes, but they took more than the symbol, the whole indo-aryan purity and whatever. Arguably stuff like this isn't part of buddhism, but there are also plenty of things that shouldn't be part of christianity that sort of come along for the ride.
Nazi mysticism is a syncretic theology, so they kinda just took whatever they needed from wherever to serve the needs of the moment.
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Are you trying to imply that is a bad thing somehow? It is also a Hindu symbol. You'll see t absolutely everywhere in India. Temples. trucks, doors, everything has swastikas on it
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IIRC Nietzsche had a more favorable view towards Buddhism than Christianity, although his exposure to it was largely through Schopenhauer and there were only bad translations available at the time.
SEP has various articles on Buddhism. Although there isn't much interaction between "western" and "eastern" philosophy for a variety of reasons (such as translation and differences in methodology), there is more than enough English-language stuff available for a lifetime of reading if that's what you're into.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/buddha/
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