German Orientalists worst distorted Asian doctrines via Western philosophical frames

Evidence

Among the national groupings of Orientalists, the German received the critical wrath of Guénon, who charges that no one “has ever pushed these assimilations further than they,” partly, it seems, because they have come to “monopolize almost entirely the interpretation of Eastern doctrine.” A striking case in point is Schopenhauer, who, with his student Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, managed to misrepresent Asian doctrines, making pessimism the basis of Hindu thought. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 317

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Schopenhauer’s actual debt to and distortion of Vedanta/Indian philosophy in The World as Will and Representation.
• SHARE: For a philosophy friend who holds strict views about Schopenhauer’s ‘reading’ of Hindu texts.