Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c14.22

c14.22

(723) While we agree with Keith's comparison between the way of knowledge accepted in Buddhism and the Upanisads, in the light of the evidence that we have shown above, we cannot subscribe to his other remarks. Despite the qualitative similarity between the means of knowledge in the Middle and Late Upanisads and Buddhism, it is necessary to note that the latter gives a different orientation to and evaluation of this means of knowledge. This tends to present this knowledge in a different light altogether and makes less obvious the gap between the empirical and the mystical.