On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c14.s5.2
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c14.s5.2
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v1.c14.s5.2
On the east side of the road south of the capital was a large monastery. In it the arhat Devaśarman composed his "Shih-shên-lun" in which he denied the Ego and the non-Ego. At this place there had also been another arhat by name Gopa, who wrote the treatise "Shêng-chiao-yao-shih-lun" (or "Śāstra on the essential realities of Buddhism"), affirming the existence of the Ego and the non-Ego. The opposite doctrines of these two great religious philosophers led to serious controversies in the church.