tman_and_moksa

SR No.: 020053
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: G N Joshi
Publisher: Gujarat University
Publication Year: 1965
Total Pages: 901
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
Buddhism
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(sünyavāda) of the Madhyamikas.” ! It is mentioned that Vasumitra who belonged to the later Sautrāntika schools believed that after the extinction of all phenomenal life and its contents, some subtle consciousness survives and that all the things, physical as well as mental which form the phenomenal life, are only the manifestations of this subtle consciousness, which survives even in the Nirvāņa. It is definitely a deviation from the old idea of materialistic Nirvāņa. Besides those which are subject to total extinction at the time of Nirvăna, there is a subtle consciousness which survives after Nirvāņa and of which the former are but a manifestation. We have here the germ of the alaya-vijñāna of the Yogācāras. Most probably they were in this point only the continuators of the Mahasamghikas, i.e. they adhered to that tendency which at an early date manifested itself among the schools of the Hīnayāna and represented against the treatment of Buddha as essentially human and against the theory of his total disappearance in a Materialistic Nirvāṇa.?
The Sautrântikas regarded Nirvana as the final aim -- the summum bonum (Sivam) of life which meant complete deliverance from the imperfections and limitations of phenomenal existence. According to them, all the sorrows and miseries of worldly life get terminated, all the passions and defilements
1 Stcherbatsky Th, : The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana, p. 30.
2 Ibid. p. 30.
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