Studies in the Origins of Buddhism c8.54

c8.54

Then follows a reconsideration of the whole problem of Attā. This section seems to use, however, two ancient upamās—that of the Janapadakalyānī,¹⁹ ridiculing those who talked more than evidence warranted; and that of the transformation of milk, establishing an unchanging identity behind changing appearances. Now the drift of the second 'simile' is clearly "un-Buddhist" and so we have the corrective—