成唯識論掌中樞要 1.9

1.9

After the Buddha entered nirvāṇa, because of Mahādeva, sectarian schisms arose competitively, mostly clinging to views of existence. Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna realized the Pramuditā-bhūmi. He collected the Mahāyāna teachings on signlessness and emptiness and composed the Madhyamaka-śāstra and other texts, exhaustively expressing the true essentials to eliminate those views of existence. Great treatise masters such as the Ārya Āryadeva composed the Śata-śāstra and other works to broadly propagate the great meaning. Due to this, sentient beings again clung to the view of emptiness.