{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/taf/taf24.htm","path":"bud/taf/taf24.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/taf/taf24.htm","text":"All false doctrines invariably come out of the \u00e2tman-conception. If we were liberated from it, the existence of false doctrines would be impossible.\nThere are two kinds of the \u00e2tman-conception: (1) Belief in the existence of a personal atman [or ego-soul]; (2) Belief in the existence of \u00e2tman in thing[or things-in-themselves]. 1\n106:1 This denial of the existence of things-in-themselves is one of the principal features of the Mah\u00e2y\u00e2na as distinguished from the H\u00eenay\u00e2na Buddhism.","title":"The Awakening of Faith: The Awakening of Faith: 2. The Refutation of False Doctrines","type":"page"}