Buddhism Its Historical Theoretical And Popular Aspects
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Thej understand it to be final ces- sation of the weary round of birth and death, a state abso- lutely exempt from all sorrows and troubles. With the exception of these two points, Atheism and Nihilism, the practical religion of Southern Buddhists has adopted the whole range of Buddhist dogmas as exhibited in the preceding lecture. If we are to apply the historical distinction of Ilinayana and Mahayana, we might therefore consider Singhalese Buddhists to be followers of the Hina- yana system. W...hen a learned Chinese Buddhist (Hiuen- tsang), who visited Ceylon in A. D. 640-645, classed the Buddhists of Ceylon among the adherents of the Mahayana School, he had most probably before his mind those very points, the negation of Atheism and Nihilism, in which the practical religion of Southern Buddhists, following the natural bent of the religious instincts and common sense, assimilated itself, though unintentionally and independen- tly, with their Northern contemporaries, among whom the Mahayana School was then flourishing.
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