The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c16.44

c16.44

The principal purpose of Hiuen-Tsang's mission was to study the science of Yoga, which, although regarded as heretical by Buddhists of the old school, was generally accepted by Mahâyânists. From very early times Indian philosophers had laid down the theory that knowledge was of two kinds: The first, *sruti*, acquired by intuition, was that which was revealed by the Higher Intelligence which governs the universe; the second, acquired by the reasoning faculties, was scholarship or traditional learning (*smriti*).