Note 51 — Chapter I · DEFINITION OF RELIGIOUS PHENOMENA AND OF RELIGION[25]
Joseph Ward Swain translation
"The conception" "was foreign to Buddhism" "that the divine Head of the Community is not absent from his people, but that he dwells powerfully in their midst as their lord and king, so that all cultus is nothing else but the expression of this continuing living fellowship. Buddha has entered into Nirvâna; if his believers desired to invoke him, he could not hear them" (Oldenberg, p. 369).