[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957) › c19.s2.5 # Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.s2.5 Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c19.s2.5 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.s2.5) inessential.¹⁴⁵ A kind of dualism appears to have sprung up between Samathabhāvanā and Vipassanā. As Buddhist dogmatics grew and Buddhists came to believe in theories and speculation with a zeal paralleled only by the Master's condemnation of them, intellectual understanding came to be regarded as the primary way to the knowledge of truth.¹⁴⁶ To Samatha was now attributed the purely negative function of suppressing (Nirodha) this or that element (Saṅkhāra).¹⁴⁷ This trend, however, did not go unchallenged. The Mādhyamikas relegated all theories to the realm of Saṃvṛti, stressing the utterly ineffable and non-intellectual nature of - [Previous: c19.s2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.s2.4) - [Next: c19.s2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.s2.6) - [Up: c19.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.s2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c19.s2.5) · Pramāṇa