BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – WHAT IS NIBBANA

BUDDHISM IN THE EYES OF INTELLECTUALS – WHAT IS NIBBANA

Salivation with out god

For the first time in the history of the world, Buddha proclaimed a salvation, which each man could gain for himself and by himself in this world during this life, without the least help from the personal GOD or Gods. He strongly inculcated the doctrine of self reliance, of purity, of courtesy, of enlightment, of peace and of universal love. He strongly urged necessity of knowledge, for without wisdom psychic insight could not be got in his life.

– Prof. Eliot, “Buddhism and Hinduism”

Buddha and the salvation

It is not the Buddha who delivers men, but he teaches them to deliver themselves, even as he has deleivered himself. They accept his teaching of the truth, not because it comes from him, but, because of personal conviction, aroused by his words, arises by the light of their own spirit.

– Dr. Oldenburg, a German Buddhist scholar