The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana c8.60

c8.60

¹ What confusion arises from a wrong translation of the term *karma* appears clearly from M de la V P.’s translation of this passage, Ab Kośa II 30, p. 56 “Quelle est la cause de la naissance d’un organe, sinon un certain acte aommandé par un dèsir relatif a cet organe”. This can only mean that there has been once upon a time, a man who evidently did not possess this organ, or did possess no organs at all, but he manifested a desire to possess some and committed an action in consequence After that all men, who peacefully existed without any organs at all, suddenly acquired them No wonder that Indian philosophy, when presented in such a garb, ceases to be attractive About *karma* in Buddhism cp O. Rosenberg, Problems, XVI.