Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c7.s3.t9.2
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c7.s3.t9.2
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c7.s3.t9.2
Prof. Keith has, for instance, shown that the simile of the extinction of the flame, which is one of the many important similes relied on by scholars favouring the view of annihilation, has been worked out in the *Aggivacchagotta sutta* to show that it is not extinction but disappearance in the "deep, unmeasurable, difficult to fathom" state of existence¹. Buddhaghosa has drawn attention to one or two passages in the *Dīgha*² and *Majjhima*³ *Nikāyas* which present us with quite a new interpretation of Nibbāna. The passage runs thus: