Hindu Medicine c5.s2.12

c5.s2.12

Zimmer’s first book *Karman* clearly reveals in which direction he was seeking his goal.⁶ The novels here translated—products typical of the tradition current among Buddhist monks—are understood as didactic prose in the strict sense of the term. Addressed to those whose horizon is narrow, whose intellectual ability is limited, they illustrate and rationalize in simple narrative the Hindu concept of fate and freedom—a “ vegetative ” concept as compared to that of the West. They are not the outgrowth of the principle of art for art’s