[Buddha-l] Conze on monks' busywork

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 22:00 +0100, Mike Austin wrote:

> Monks at Nalanda thought that Shantideva just ate, slept  and defecated. 
> It later transpired that he had reached a high level of realisation. His 
> text "Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life" has since helped others to 
> reduce dukkha. We should not be too hasty in our judgement.

So what's your point? Are you suggesting that every apparent drone is
really a literary genius hiding his light under a bushel? Are you
suggesting that one monk, Shantideva, is evidence that every monk who
spent his energy studying abhidharma made a contribution as great as
Shantideva's to the reduction of dukkha in this world?

-- 
Richard