[Buddha-l] Conze on monks' busywork

[Bruce Burrill]

At 02:26 PM 10/24/2005, you wrote:
> >All this reminds me of an observation that Edward Conze made once about
> >abhidharma. Monks did not have enough to do, he said, so they kept
> >themselves busy by putting every teaching into a neat category and then
> >drawing an infinite number of meaningless correlations between one
> >category and another. Better to do that, I guess, than starting wars.
>
>I quite agree with Conze about this!

This is a bit funny, given that the Prajnaparamita texts are really 
nothing more than illustrated Abdhidharma.