Concept
Buddhists
Overview
adherent of the religion of Buddhism
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In many such ways as these did he undergo pain for the sake of all living. And so it was, that, having become Buddha, he continued in the world for forty-five years, preaching his Law, teaching and transforming, so that those who had no rest found rest, and the unconverted were converted. When his connection with the living was completed, he attained to pari-nirvana and died.
Confucius, Chinese literature
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His "religion," which it would be better to call a system of hygiene, in order to avoid confounding it with a creed so wretched as Christianity, depended for its effect upon the triumph over resentment: to make the soul free therefrom was considered the first step towards recovery. "Not through hostility is hostility put to flight; through friendship does hostility end": this stands at the beginning of Buddha's…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen
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Buddhism is a religion for peoples in a further state of development, for races that have become kind, gentle and over-spiritualized (--Europe is not yet ripe for it--): it is a summons that takes them back to peace and cheerfulness, to a careful rationing of the spirit, to a certain hardening of the body. Christianity aims at mastering _beasts of prey_; its modus operandi is to make them _ill_--to make feeble is…
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Antichrist
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Philosophers who discussed Buddhists
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Walpola Rahula Thera
- David Kalupahana
- Bell hooks
- Xiong Shili
- Sam Harris
- Anekantavada
- Śīlabhadra
- Han Yu
- Confucius
- Aśvaghoṣa
- Vladimir Solovyov (philosopher)
- God is dead
- Hegesias of Cyrene
- Paul Brunton
- Nyayakusumanjali
- Miyamoto Musashi
- Andō Shōeki
- Ikki Kita
Related ideas
- Ritual
- Ethnicity
- Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
- India
- Indian religions
- Samadhi
- Japan
- Japanese language
- Korea
- Nonviolence
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Muslims
- East Asia
- Nalanda mahavihara
- Meditation
- Vietnam
- Chögyam Trungpa
- Middle Way
- Indian subcontinent
- North America
- Western world
- Nirvana
- South Asia
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Atomism.