The Lotus Sutra is one of the Buddhist texts which can give a real idea of the force, originality, influence, and value of the Buddhist Positiveness. This essay on Buddhist Positiveness was originally written (1994) by Fernando Tola as an answer to the Catholic Pope's criticism of Buddhism, according to which Buddhism is a 'negative' religion; and this essay was presented afterwards, in an abridged version, as a paper, in The International Conference of The International Association of Buddhist Studies held in Lausanne, Switzerland (in 1999).
