The History of Buddhist Thought c12.69
The History of Buddhist Thought c12.69
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c12.69
The interpretation of Mr. Woodward ³ appears to explain its significance. It is to attain the form-world by cultivating the path thereto. The form-world to the Buddhist was a reality—a stage of the universe above this world of the five senses, in which material shapes existed, but not the senses of touch, smell, and taste. He was supposed actually to go there by such training, and psychologically the effect was so to concentrate his mind that he became fit for existence in that world.