The History of Buddhist Thought c28.16

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¹ *The conception of Buddhist Nirvāna*, p. 4, Leningrad, 1927. Nevertheless L. de Vallée Poussin, at least as late as 1902, continued to hold that the Mahāyāna was as old as the Sinhalese doctrine. “Nous ne pensons pas que les traditions, les vinayas et les dogmes du Grand Véhicule, ni même ceux du Véhicule tantrique soient moins archaïques ou moins anciens.” *Journ. As.*, ii, 1902, p. 238.