Helmuth von Glasenapp

Vedanta & Buddhism: A Comparative Study, by Helmuth von Glasenapp (Buddhist Publication Society Wheel Publication No. 2; 1978; 25k/8pp.)

This fascinating essay explores the relationship between Vedanta and Buddhism, two great monuments of philosophical thought which grew side-by-side in the same spiritual soil of ancient India. Though these two philosophies share some obvious similarities, they part ways in their fundamentally divergent notions of "self" (atta) and of the ultimate goal of spiritual practice.