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than enough of hopes and wishes from which he who desirect to follow the Sakya's son had to sever his heart. Why present to the weak the keen edge of the truth : the victor's prize of the delivered is the Nothing ? Barth is of the same opinion as Oldenburg on this point. Buddhisni having taught that “ one's individuality is only a form, an empty appcarance, (that) everything is only a flux of aggregates, which are interminably uniting and disuniting ; " from this, and "from all that it (Buddhisın) insists on, and from all that it ignores,' Barth concludes " that the way (to Nirvana) conducts to total extinction, and that perfection consists in ceasing to exist” Though. Barth says that Buddhism resolves into pure nihilism' that it becomes the • Cânyavada' the system of the void, he has to confess that this was not the teaching of Buddha, but only its direct continuance.
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