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Buddhism offered a rather different route to salvation than Jainism. The path of the Jains was that of other-worldly asceticism; that of the Buddhists was other-worldly mysticism.
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© 1998 Malcolm B. Hamilton
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Hamilton, M.B. (1998). Buddhism. In: Sociology and the World’s Religions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374393_4
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