the end of 1950 Borges published in the magazine Sur, a short essay entitled 'The personality of the Buddha. " This, together with the materials of the lectures on Buddhism offered by Borges at the Colegio Libre de Estudios Superiores, possibly the embryo conceptual book, written with the help of her friend Alicia Jurado.
alluvial culture Borges, lets clear the thorny issue of transmigration, in the trial of '76, intercept on the same array, Pythagorean concepts, the notion of kalpa or day of Brahma, the hypothesis of Cesar, who attributed the belief in the transmigration of the Druids of Gaul, elements of Jewish Kabbalah (the Gilgul, revolution, and the Ibbur, fertilization), not scorn ideas of Schopenhauer, Hume, Voltaire or Plato himself, even check out to a sixth-century Welsh poem, to sustain the course of his argumentative text, which leads to the Buddhist theory of karma and karmic body,
I have been a sword in hand,
I've been a shield in the war,
I have been the string of a harp,
For a year I was enchanted with the water foam.
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