The History of Buddhist Thought c12.104

c12.104

The question about the term religion is largely verbal. Buddhism, like the religions amongst which it originated, formed a positive conception of the universe. Its cosmology and theory of recurring cycles were fundamentally the same as the brahminical. Certain problems about the universe and the individual arose, which were put aside as useless but never considered unknowable or unthinkable. The Buddhist was convinced that he knew or could come to know.