The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana c19.3

c19.3

² It is clear that wehave here that conception of a substance independently existing which is well known to the students of European philosophy, op Spinoza's definition of substance as quod in se est et per se concipitur" This conception resulted either in establishing the theory of a harmonia generaliter stablits in order to explain the interdependence of the monads, or to the view that there is only one unique substance The latter view is taken in Mahāyāna, the former in Hinayāna, where the harmony between monads is established by karma as a special force (samskāra), the force κατ'εοχην, the πρῶτονκινοῦν