... the fourth truth is: the cessation of desire can only be achieved by the "eight -fold path." A person who follows the "eight - fold path" must have the right belief, right ambition, right speech, right thoughts, and right pleasures, in order to reach -1- Nirvana (Stavrianos 84). The word Nirvana literally meant "emptiness." However, it was later changed to mean " an afterlife in ... trade route. When Buddhism was first presented to the Chinese, it was done so under the influence of the Taoist who used their own vocabulary for the translations. Therefore, the Chinese assumed Buddhism was...

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