The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana c8.4
The Conception of Buddhist Nirvāṇa c8.4
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c8.4
Between the materialists who denied retribution and the eternalists who imagined a return to a pure spiritual condition, Buddha took a midd'e course From the eternalists he borrowed the doctrine of a gradual accumulation of spiritual merit through a series of progressing existences, but he was averse to their doctrine of an eternal spiritual principle.