Salvation is the infrastructure of Buddhistic thought. From the Buddhistic point of view, the world is composed of transitory and ever changing elements and there is no fixed and permanent reality either in macrocosm or in the microcosom . Therefore, existance will bring but suffering and it is indeed the .very
suffering itself .
Desire and craving for being is like a karma that breeds reincarnation and re - birth. The perfect man is he who can free himself from the everlasting cycle of reincarnation and from the
tenacles of the karma and thus attain to Nirvana or the realm of
salvation and peace.
However, the two large sects of the Buddhist order ( i.e. Theravada and Mahayana) hold different views as to the ways of attaining to Nirvana or salvation.
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