Nietzsche's thought of the eternal return of the same runs deep. Some think it runs so deep as to touch other streams of thought. One is the thought of Enlightenment in Zen Buddhism. At the surface, that is doubtful.
Cultures flourish like flowers, uniquely.
Zen is a precious garden all its own, fit for its home in China and Japan. Now largely depleted. Gone from China long ago. In Japan, transformed into the cultivation of precious arts. The monasteries of Kyoto seem like endangered species in a zoo.