The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s13.8
The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c12.s13.8
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c12.s13.8
Seneca's "wise man" was like the Mahāyāna *Bodhisattva* a servant of society.³⁹ The Stoic *Riṣi*, as portrayed by Seneca, could not afford to be a morally self-sufficient entity like the Epicurean "wise man" who corresponded somewhat to the *Nirvānist*, so to say, of Śākyan or Hīnayāna Buddhism.