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What is really in mind when speaking of the Buddha is not so much the historical Buddha, the Suddhodana Prince, but rather a degree of attainment, a rank which other Bodhisattvas also attain in the course of their successive lives.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Ancient Wisdom and the Heralding of the Christ Impulse","site_heading":null,"date":"1912-05-08","location":null,"word_count":158,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/143/1912-05-08/p014","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Dorothy S. 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Sie faßt aber dabei nur ins Auge dasjenige, was als Individualität von Inkarnation zu Inkarnation geht, und daß in einer bestimmten Inkarnation ein solcher Bodhisattva zum Buddha wird. Dann ist ein solcher Bodhisattva so weit gekommen, wenn er ein Buddha geworden ist — was er nur auf Erden kann -, daß er nicht mehr herabzusteigen braucht in einen fleischlichen Leib. Man hat also, je weiter wir zurückgehen, nur die Individualität im Auge und hebt weniger hervor die einzelne Verkörperung. 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