"What do the scholars say of Buddhist literature? Have they got it in its completeness? Assuredly not. ... Moreover, "according to a tradition preserved by the Buddhist schools, both of the South and of the North, the sacred Buddhist Canon comprised originally 80,000 or 84,000 tracts, but most of them were lost, so that there remained but 6,000," the professor tells his audiences. "Lost" as usual for Europeans. But who can be quite sure that they are likewise lost for Buddhists and Brahmins? Considering the sacredness for the Buddhists of every line written upon Buddha or his "Good Law," the loss of nearly 76,000 tracts does seem miraculous."
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