The Maha-Bodhi and the United Buddhist World: Vol. XXIX

Buddhism is a science of Ethics, Philosophy, and Psychology. The whole of the Vinaya Pitaka contains the science of ethics. Animistic religions whose founders had never known what psychology was, taught nothing about the processes that operate in the machinery of Mind. Fear of God, not love, was the shibboleth that the founders of metaphysics preached. Brahmanism promulgated the individualistic view enunciating the law of the supremacy of the Brahman caste, and declared that the Brahman was above even that of god.