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[Anonymous No.19595241]

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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.