The Satapatha Brahmana Vol. 12 Part 1 Books I And Ii The Sacred Books Of The East

Disagreements concerning the nature and extent of the universe constitute a focus of theoogica debate which permeates buddhism at every eve whie there have been numerous attempts to cataogue the detais of the buddhist cosmoogies, none has attempted a genera interpretation of their underying intention this work attempts to begin the process of interpreting the major phases of buddhist cosmoogica specuation by seeing in them various dramas of savation taiored to the phiosophica and theoogica prediections of their respective traditions to a arge extent, this interpretation reies on an examination of continuities between the buddhist cosmoogies and those of the heenistic word as a whoe in the course of this study, two major cosmoogica traditions emerge; those which rey on metaphors of time and those which rey on metaphors of time and those which rey on metaphors of space the former are associated with the hinayana and the atter with the mahayana forms of buddhism each draws on images of motion and ight to articuate its vision of the drama of savation