MYSTICAL BUDDHISM IN CONNEXION WITH THE 

 YOGA PHILOSOPHY OF THE HINDUS. By SIR 

 MONIER MONIER- WILLIAMS, K.C.I.E., D.C.L., LLJX, 

 Ph.D., Boden Professor of Sanskrit in the University of 

 Oxford.* 



THE first idea implied by Buddhism is intellectual enlighten- 

 ment. But Buddhism has its own theory of enlighten- 

 ment its own idea of true knowledge, which it calls Bodhi, 

 not Veda. By true knowledge it means knowledge acquired 

 by man through his own intellectual faculties and through his 

 own inner consciousness, instincts, and intuitions, unaided by 

 any external or supernatural revelation of any kind. 



But it is important to observe that Buddhism, in the carry- 

 ing out of its own theory of entire self-dependence in the 

 search after truth, was compelled to be somewhat inconsistent 

 with itself. It enjoined self -con quest, self-restraint, self- 

 concentration and separation from the world for the attainment 

 of perfect knowledge and for the accomplishment of its own 

 summum bonum the bliss of Nirvana the bliss of doliver- 



* In this paper some of the diacritical marks, required for the accurate 

 representation of Oriental words in the Roman character, have been omitted. 



