''In my condemnation of Christianity I surely hope I do no injustice to a
related religion with an even larger number of believers: I allude to
Buddhism. Both are to be reckoned among the nihilistic religions--they
are both décadence religions--but they are separated from each other
in a very remarkable way. For the fact that he is able to compare them
at all the critic of Christianity is indebted to the scholars of
India.Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity--it is
part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively
and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical
speculation. The concept, "god," was already disposed of before it
appeared. Buddhism is the only genuinely positive religion to be
encountered in history, and this applies even to its epistemology (which
is a strict phenomenalism). It does not speak of a "struggle with sin,"
but, yielding to reality, of the "struggle with suffering." Sharply
differentiating itself from Christianity, it puts the self-deception
that lies in moral concepts behind it; it is, in my phrase, beyond
good and evil.''

The Antichrist