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CAT 2015 Verbal and Reading Comprehension

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The passage given below is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the option that best captures the essence of the passage. Key in the number of the option you choose as your answer

The study of Buddhism over the past century or so has resembled the encounter of the blind men and the elephant in many ways. Students of Buddhism have tended to fasten onto a small part of the tradition and assume their conclusions held true about the whole. Often the parts they have seized on have been a little like the elephant's tusks — a striking, but unrepresentative, part of the whole animal. As a result, many erroneous and sweeping generalizations about Buddhism have been made, such as that it is ‘negative’, 'world-denying', pessimistic', and so forth. Although this tendency to over generalize is now less common, it is still found in some of the older literature where authors tended to exaggerate certain features of the tradition or assume that what was true of Buddhism in one culture or historical period held good everywhere.

The story of three blind men and the elephant can tell us much about Buddhism
Buddhism has been generalized and many of its facets over-exaggerated by its perpetuators over the years
The way the three blind men make conclusions about the elephant is analogous to how the world views Buddhism.
Authors in general are unable to grasp the nuances of Buddhism.

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