Buddhist Psychology

As to the book’s quests and goals, two of the more proximate may suffice. While scholars are beginning to get at and decipher the longburied treasure of Buddhist writings brought from Mid-Asia, the general reader is being told that the group of other descendants from Early Buddhism called Maha-Yanism, is not only evolved from the earlier doctrine, but is its completion and apotheosis. The reader cannot judge in this matter, unless he has an all-round knowledge of what the developed system started from. Such a knowledge is not always present in those who are fluent about the complete descendant. Hence he is placed in the position of one who learns of Neo-Platonism and not of Plato, of Aquinas and not of Aristotle. My book’s quest is to present summarily some of the thought contained in the motherdoctrine and her first-born child, much of which is still inaccessible to him.