[Buddha-l] Conze on monks' busywork

[Mike Austin]

In message <1130188492.4585.39.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Richard P. 
Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> writes
>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?

No.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin