Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.69

c8.69

∗ The alleged derivation of Buddhism from the Sânkhya philosophy plays an important part in many sketches of this as well as of other philosophies. I know nothing better to say on this subject than what Max Müller has already said (“Chips from a German Workshop,” i, 226): “We have looked in vain for any definite similarities between the system of Kapila, as known to us in the Sânkhyasûtras, and the Abhidarma, or the metaphysics of the Buddhists.”