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³ Barth (RHR 42, 1900, p. 55 = Oeuvres II, 338) terms the Śikṣā-Samuccaya "la scholastique verbeuse et délayée usque ad nauseam," whilst he values the Bodhicaryāvatāra very highly as a counterpart to the "Imitatio Christi" of Thomas à Kempis (RHR 1893, p. 259 f. = Oeuvres II, 172). The Bodhicaryāvatāra does not, it is true, teach how to imitate Buddha, but teaches how to become a Buddha. Cf. *La Vallée Poussin*, Bouddhisme, p. 297 ff.; C. H. Tawney in *JRAS* 1908, 583 ff; Foucher in *RHR* 1908, t. 57, p. 241 ff.