Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c7.s3.t9.16

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¹ The Nikāya passages referred to here (Majjhima, I, p. 4) were not in harmony with Prof. Stcherbatsky's theory and so they did not appeal to him. See his remarks in Con. of N., p. 42n. The “maññanā” of Buddhaghosa reminds us of one of the passages of the Prajñā-pāramitās, in which they assert that all dharmas are like dreams and that Bodhisattvas ‘svapnam api na manyante, svapnena na manyante, etc.; see, e.g., Pañca. (A.S.B. ms.), leaves 225, 399b: saṃsāraṃ saṃsārato na vikalpayati, nirvāṇam nirvāṇato na vikalpayati and so forth.