On one reading of the Bodhisatva ideal, the extinction of sentient life on the planet is the ultimate goal of Buddhism.
To start, there’s two possible interpretations, according to whether you count Buddhas as sentient beings.
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“Saving” in Buddhism means “enabling a sentient being to become a Buddha, who is not a sentient being.” So “I vow to save them all” should result in extinction of sentient beings by way of all six realms being exhausted of transmigrating non-Buddhas, >
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> all of whom would have departed for the inconceivable realm of Nirvana.
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