Note 139 — Chapter XIII · NIRVÂNA.
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Before proceeding further, let us see what the Mahâyâna tradition says concerning this point. The tradition varies in this case as in many others. According to Beal’s Romantic History of Buddha, which is a translation of a Chinese version of the Buddhacarita (Fo pen hing ching),[139] Buddha is reported to have exclaimed this: