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The Metaphysic of Christianity and Buddhism

SANSCRIT AND PALI TERMS USED.

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Samskāra Sankhāra Includes everything of which impermanence may be predicated, or, which is the same thing, everything which springs from a cause. (Childers.) Gestaltungen—Oldenberg's Buddha, German edition. Conformations—English translation of Oldenberg's Buddha.

SkandhasThe five attributes or elements of being—form, sensation, perception, discrimination, and consciousness.

Bhikkhu BhikshuMendicant, monk, friar.

AkāsaSpace.

SamsāraThe ocean of Birth and Death, transiency, worldliness, the restlessness of a worldly life, the agitation of selfishness, the vanity fair of life. (Paul Carus.)

MahāyānaThe great vehicle—viz., of salvation.

HināyānaThe little vehicle—viz., of salvation.

KarmaAction, work, the law of action, retribution, results of deeds previously done, and the destiny resulting therefrom. (Paul Carus.)

Erratum.

For Professor Oldenberg's Buddhism read everywhere Professor Oldenberg's Buddha: His Life, His Doctrine, His Order.

CHRISTIANITY AND BUDDHISM.

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