It seems he missed the point entirely, as does nearly every religiously Buddhist person. Rebirth happens incessantly throughout a single subjective lifetime. It

It seems he missed the point entirely, as does nearly every religiously Buddhist person. Rebirth happens incessantly throughout a single subjective lifetime. It happens every 100-300 milliseconds, so far as I can tell. The Buddha realized this and tried to teach it. Ending the cycle of rebirth mostly just means forestalling the reemergence of the ego/self/subject. It doesn't truly end, though I might grant that some extremely talented meditators can probably spend more time than not (but not all the time) in an egoless state. Take everything you read about the Buddha and his teachings as an attempt to articulate an empirical approach to dealing with the fact(s) of consciousness. If you can't find a way to make a certain lesson or articulation align with an empirical approach to consciousness, then just try a different lesson. The goal isn't nirvana, but freedom. Including freedom from goal-oriented perspectives.