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Metaphysics Of Hinayana Metaphysics Of Hinayana, Let us give the main tenets of the Sarvastivada or the Vaibhasika school which the Sautrantika also admit. Sarvastivada denies out-right the existence of God whose place is taken by the Buddha and the theory of Karma. The so-called soul is reduced to a series of fleeting ideas. The … Read more
Teachings Of The Buddha Teachings Of The Buddha: Under these circumstances, it is difficult to say what exactly are the teachings of the Buddha who was mainly an ethical teacher and a mystic rather than a metaphysician and who preached only orally. Yet, a fairly good account of his teachings can be gleaned. It may … Read more
BONDAGE AND LIBERATION (JAINISM) BONDAGE AND LIBERATION (JAINISM): Karma is the link which unites the soul to the body. Ignorance of truth and four passions— anger (krodha), greed (lobha), pride (mana) and delusion (Maya) which are called kasaya or sticky substances where karmic particles stick, attract the flow of karmic matter towards the soul. The … Read more
CATEGORIES OF JAINISM CATEGORIES OF JAINISM: We have seen that substance, according to Jainism, has infinite characters and is subject to production, destruction and permanence. The whole universe is brought under the two everlasting, uncreated, eternal and co-existing categories which are called Jiva and Ajiva. Jiva means the conscious spit it and Ajiva means the … Read more
CRITICIAM OF SYADVADA CRITICIAM OF SYADVADA: The Buddhists and the Vedantins have criticized Svldvada as a self contradictory doctrine. Taking the word ‘ syat ’ in its popular sense of probability, they have found it easy to condemn this theory. Contradictory attributes like existence and non-existence cannot belong to the same thing in the same sense. … Read more