Editing Plotinus (section)

=== India ===
[[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]] and [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]] used the writing of Plotinus in their own texts as a superlative elaboration upon Indian [[monism]], specifically [[Upanishad]]ic and [[Advaita]] [[Vedantic]] thought.{{citation needed|date=March 2013}} Coomaraswamy has compared Plotinus' teachings to the Hindu school of [[Advaita Vedanta]] (''advaita'' meaning "not two" or "non-dual").<ref>[http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/com/com_plot.html Swami-krishnananda.org]</ref> M. Vasudevacharya says, "Though Plotinus never managed to reach India, his method shows an affinity to the 'method of negation' as taught in some of the Upanishads, such as the Brhadaranyaka Upanishad, and also to the practice of yoga."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Vasudevacharya|first=M.|title=The Maker and the Material|publisher=Milton Keynes, UK|year=2017|isbn=978-1-925666-82-3|pages=84}}</ref>

Advaita Vedanta and neoplatonism have been compared by [[Frits Staal|J. F. Staal]],<ref>J. F. Staal (1961), ''Advaita and Neoplatonism: A critical study in comparative philosophy'', Madras: University of Madras</ref> [[Frederick Copleston]],<ref>{{cite web |author=Frederick Charles Copleston |url=http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPRATO&Cover=TRUE |title=Religion and the One 1979–1981 |publisher=Giffordlectures.org |access-date=2010-01-08 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100409195724/http://www.giffordlectures.org/Browse.asp?PubID=TPRATO&Cover=TRUE |archive-date=2010-04-09 }}</ref> Aldo Magris and Mario Piantelli,<ref>Special section "Fra Oriente e Occidente" in ''Annuario filosofico'' No. 6 (1990), including the articles "Plotino e l'India" by Aldo Magris and "L'India e Plotino" by Mario Piantelli</ref> Radhakrishnan,<ref>Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (ed.)(1952), ''History of Philosophy Eastern and Western'', Vol.2. London: George Allen & Unwin. p.&nbsp;114</ref> Gwen Griffith-Dickson,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=39&EventId=157 |title=''Creator'' (or not?) |publisher=Gresham.ac.uk |access-date=2010-01-08 |archive-date=2009-02-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214002122/http://www.gresham.ac.uk/event.asp?PageId=39&EventId=157 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and John Y. Fenton.<ref>John Y. Fenton (1981), "Mystical Experience as a Bridge for Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion: A Critique", Journal of the American Academy of Religion, p.&nbsp;55</ref>

The joint influence of Advaitin and neoplatonic ideas on [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] was considered by Dale Riepe in 1967.<ref>Dale Riepe (1967), "Emerson and Indian Philosophy", ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' '''28'''(1):115 (1967)</ref>