Budismo, Vedismo e Hinduísmo: Raízes, Continuidade e Ruptura

Buddhism, Vedism and Hinduism: Roots, Continuity and Rupture

Abstract

The eminent initiatory character of Buddhism leaves no doubt as
to the fact that, in its origins, it flourished as one of the many other schools of
philosophical-meditative inquiry into the deeper levels of secular and popular
Hinduism, dominated at the time by the Vedic matrices. Whether or not the
nature of this in-depth investigation implies a break with Vedic tradition as a
whole and, if so, whether this break implies the constitution of a distinct Buddhist
religiosity, is one of the central issues of this article. Finally, living up to an ancestral
brotherhood, we analyze the convergences between the traditions of Mahāyāna
Buddhism and Vedic Advaita Vedānta, as soteriological approaches that equally
reject metaphysical reifications and nihilistic (anti) reifications, affirm the world
and involve a deconstruction/ resignification of ātman (“I”).

Key-Words: Buddhism; hinduism; vedism; mahāyāna; vedānta.