Buddhism is an old and decrepit man.

The teaching of Buddha was like a young and beautiful child, and now it has become as an old and decrepit man. Like the aged man it cannot see, it cannot hear, it cannot remember anything.

- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in London, UK Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1982 reprint

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