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>Not quite. Nietzsche called Buddhism decadent and nihilistic, the rejection of life.
This is a poor reading because of the fact that Nietzsche himself got most of his knowledge about Buddhism from Schopenhauer, who interpreted it in the context of his Will.
>The point of nirvana is to escape from the cycle of samsara (i.e. the eternal recurrence of life)
A poor interpretation of nirvana. Nirvana is not seen as essentially different from samsara, so “escaping samsara” would make little sense. Nirvana, as I mentioned earlier in thread, is simply samsara seen through emptiness (i.e., without being).
>Although N did respect it as being better than Christianity because it directly addressed the problem of suffering, while Christianity is just a fraud that blamed it on fictional diseases like "evil" and "sin" Buddhism promises nothing but offers something; Christianity promises everything but offers nothing.
Mahayana Buddhism is a tightrope between nihilism and eternalism. I will agree that some schools of Buddhism are nihilistic, but Mahayana and Vajrayana are Nietzschean. You are basically attacking a nihilistic strawman of Buddhism and claiming it as an accurate representation of Buddhism on the whole.

The Übermensch is the Buddha. Conventional and ultimate reality are Apollo and Dionysus. Nirvana is the affirmation of life. Simple as.

The Übermensch is the Buddha. Conventional and ultimate reality are Apollo and Dionysus. Nirvana is the affirmation of life. Simple as.