Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c7.116

c7.116

Hiuen Thsang rejoined: "In our country, too, we have long had the 'Vibhâshâ' and 'Kôsha'; but I have been sorry to observe their logic superficial and their language weak; they do not speak of the highest perfection. On this account I have come so far as this, desiring to be instructed in the 'Yoga-sastra' of the Great Vehicle. And the Yoga, what is it but the revelation of Maitreya, the Bodhisattva next to become Buddha, and to call such a book heretical, how is it you are not afraid of the bottomless pit?"¹