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u/JarinJove · 4 pointsr/Nietzsche

Hope you all enjoy, I'm surprised how little the influences, especially his impact on Japanese culture, is discussed. I've even linked to a book that discusses his impacts on Asian culture in general. I'll share below too.

https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsche-Asian-Thought-Graham-Parkes/dp/0226646858

u/Khiva · 3 pointsr/pics

Dammit, you're both wrong.

First guy, the fact that you'd link to "idealism" and think that it has any relevance to the tenants of Buddhism indicates that your sweeping pronouncements on the affinities of Buddhism to other religions, and indeed all world religions, is remarkably shallow. There are strands of Buddhism, Zen being one, which are deeply atheistic. Come back when you understand why. When you see the Buddha, kill the Buddha being a good place to start.

Second guy - Nietzsche didn't understand a damn thing about Buddhism and his opinions on the subject are widely dismissed. There are interesting affinities with this thought and Buddhism philosophy further explored here but his speculations on Buddhism, filtered through Schopenhauer, are almost entirely worthless.

Both of you are going to come away from this thinking that the people on the other side of the argument are misinformed. In this case, you're both right.