"H. Kern in his book Over het woord Zarathushtra (1867) states, “the Bactrian (i.e. Avestan) is so (greatly) related t…"

"[The Buddha] advised bhikkhus to be an island (“'dìpa”') or a refuge for themselves. After his passing, their only su…"

"It is also important to bear in mind that this present struggle, tremendous and unique as it may seem, is not the fir…"

"If the West’s roots lay in Griechentum, he wrote, “‘... [our western culture] has also been influenced and made fruit…"

"The Doctrine (“”Dhamma“”) allows one to attain a state in which suffering can no longer take root, because one embrac…"

"After all, “'nibbàna”' is not a concept: this is why attempts to illustrate it through language and logic lend themse…"

"The Buddha was a proponent of simple, direct teaching aimed at liberation and free of theoretical frills: his intent …"

"The right-thinking are irritated by the nonconformist's lack of predictability, even by his occasional failure to sho…"

"We console ourselves, for the most part, with the superiority of our cultivation, which we consider to be qualitative…"

"If one wanted to summarise the essence of Buddhism in one sentence, it could only be this: everything that is transie…"