Discrimination between Middle and Extremes – a Mahāyānistic manuscript – IV

SALVATION

Mr. Stcherbatsky considered the “three yāna”, the “three vehicles” to be the means to the end the he dubbed “salvation”. However all these yāna have to be put into practice by the individual. These are not flowers that one cuts along the way, but fields that one has to cultivate oneself. To therefore say that in the end there is “salvation”, being the intervention of a helping hand from somewhere out there is in Asian Buddhist circles considered to be completely preposterous and ridiculous. The individual who strove reaps the fruit of his own endeavours. S/he liberated her-/himself.
This with respect to the translation of the Madhyānta-Vibhanga.

Cont.: https://4465bj.wordpress.com/2019/04/25/discrimination-between-middle-and-extremes-a-mahayanistic-manuscript-v/