Excerpt from The Buddhist Attitude Towards National Defence and Administration: A Special Allocution
It has so often been asserted that Buddhism is a bar to progress, since the principal aim of all who practice it is to obtain Nirvana, which has generally been rendered in English as "Complete Nothingness," or "Complete Oblivion," neither of which terms are really quite correct. But this is not the proper place to discuss anything so abstruse as the meaning of the term Nirvana. All that is intended is to give the foreigner a practical insight into some of the ideas which really constitute the teaching of Buddhism as approved of by the Supreme Head of the Church of Siam, by translating into English one of the many Special Allocutions which His Holiness has been accustomed to pronounce each year, on the occasion of the Anniversary of the Natal Day of His Majesty the King.
This allocution is a characteristic one, and gives a good idea of the broadminded way in which His Holiness approaches practical problems. In addition to being one of the finest scholars in the Buddhistic world, His Holiness is a historian, a linguist, an astronomer, and of course a great philosopher; he is also a great reader and is exceptionally well informed concerning the affairs of every civilised country.
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