I. REDUCTION OF THE EXTERNAL WORLD
After a hundred years had been elapsing, since the Western’s beginning their studies of Buddhism up to the first part of this century, regardless of the method that claims to be scientific and accurate, they still showed much confused and disappointed when encountering an object of investigation that appears to escape more than a definition. Whether they tried to express all their enthusiasm toward it as did Stcherbatsky or intended to retain the rigorously objective behavior of a scholar, their conclusion was all the same with somehow intense sorrow.
After a hundred years had been elapsing, since the Western’s beginning their studies of Buddhism up to the first part of this century, regardless of the method that claims to be scientific and accurate, they still showed much confused and disappointed when encountering an object of investigation that appears to escape more than a definition. Whether they tried to express all their enthusiasm toward it as did Stcherbatsky or intended to retain the rigorously objective behavior of a scholar, their conclusion was all the same with somehow intense sorrow.
