Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism: Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise
By K. R. Norman
8 pagesalthough the Buddha took over some of the terminology of Brahmanical Hinduism, he gave it a new Buddhist sense. The change of meaning is almost always a result of the fact that the Brahmanical terms were used in a framework of ritualism, while the Buddha invested them with a moral and ethical sense.