🎙️ Hey everyone, welcome to Revise and Resubmit — the podcast where ideas get their second draft and thoughts take the scenic route. I’m thrilled you’re here for another Weekend Research Review 🚀📖.Today, we’re diving into something deep — and I mean really deep. 🌀 It’s called Chandrakirti’s Chariot, a remarkable three-part essay by Swami Sarvapriyananda, published between January and March 2023 in The Vedanta Kesari, brought to us by the Sri Ramakrishna Mission. 🛕📝But this isn’t just another article — no, this one has a story. Back in 2019, while Swami was a Nagral Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, he took a course on Indo-Tibetan Madhyamaka, taught by none other than Professor Jay L. Garfield. As his term paper, Swami penned this essay… and rewrote it. Then rewrote it again. And then, yep, one more time. ✍️😂 Professor Garfield famously told him, “This is not a temple talk. Give proper logic — for and against — every argument.”What emerged was more than just a paper — it was a philosophical bridge between Madhyamaka Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. 🧘‍♂️☸️ It walks through the nature of the self, emptiness, non-duality, and the great question of what it means to be free. At the heart of it all? Chandrakirti’s chariot — a humble metaphor that reveals profound truths.And get this — this essay became the final chapter of Swami’s upcoming 2025 book Fullness & Emptiness: Vedanta and Buddhism. So what you’re about to explore is not just brilliant — it’s history in the making. 🪷📚🙏 A huge thank you to Swami Sarvapriyananda for this luminous work, and to the Sri Ramakrishna Mission for publishing it.💡 And now, here’s a question for your mind to munch on:If the self is not found in any part, nor in the whole — then what exactly are “you” riding in that chariot? 🧐🛞If that made your neurons fire, don’t forget to subscribe to Revise and Resubmit on Spotify 🎧, Amazon Prime Music 🎶, and Apple Podcast 🍎. And for more like this, hit us up on our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher — we’re just getting started. 🔔✨Stay curious.ReferenceSarvapriyananda, S. (2023), Chandrakirti's Chariot: Self in Madhyamaka Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta. The Vedanta Kesari. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15332766The book "Fullness & Emptiness: Vedanta and Buddhism" has 4 Chapters apart from Foreword and Introduction.Following lectures serve as a good discussion note and central theme of the book even if you do not have the Kindle/ebook.Chapter 1 related Lecture - The Four Noble Truths | Swami Sarvapriyanandahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnGp0WON93IChapter 2 related Lecture - Purnam - The Full | Swami Sarvapriyanandahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQWEh9AC1K8Chapter 3 related Lecture - Sunyam - The Void | Swami Sarvapriyanandahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJPQ0cDM5J0Chapter 4 related Lecture - Chandrakirti's Chariot | Swami Sarvapriyanandahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAZPWu084m4 (Vedantic Self and Buddhist Non-Self )Youtube Channel⁠https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher⁠Support us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher

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