Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon c15.s3.12

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¹ Poussin, *Bouddhisme*, p. 181, who admits that there is no decisive proof. Later see BCA. vi. 43; TRD., p. 26; Mrs. Rhys Davids’ objections (JRAS. 1903, p. 590) clearly carry us too far in the opposite sense, by reducing consciousness to an epiphenomenon of sense and object contact. There is, *per contra*, no ground to attribute the doctrine to the Canon (JA. 1903, ii. 371 notwithstanding). The Mahāsānghikas appear to have held this view as regards sounds and sense organs and generally (KV. xii. 2 ff.) Cf. p. 286.