The History of Buddhist Thought c16.31

c16.31

There is a possible reference to upanishadic doctrine where self and world are identified (p. 102), but even here there is no reference to Brahma. The Mahāniddesa ¹ speaks of the “ heresy of ātman ” (attadiṭṭhi) and the “ misconception of ātman ” (attagāha). Both these are late terms and forms of expression which are quite unlike the formulation of the problem as we find it in the scheme of the five khandhas or in the parallel expressions for the union of mind and body.