The History of Buddhist Thought c18.59

c18.59

Dr. F. O. Schrader has attacked “the nihilistic conception of Parinibbānam” and defended “the assertion to the contrary”, but without stating clearly what he means by this.² He says quite naively, “I cannot here explain the reasons why, to my way of thinking, philosophy is forced to accept the metaphysical conception of the Absolute One.” Not only that, but he is also certain that Buddha accepted it. “It was the Buddha, without any doubt, who banished out of the world the last glitter of immutability, and liberated, on the other hand, from the last terrestrial feature it still possessed, viz. consciousness, the notion of the Absolute.” With such premises much can be proved.