A History of Indian Literature v2.c19.s6.t4.112

v2.c19.s6.t4.112

While in reading the numerous long epistemological and metaphysical discussions on Sūnyatā, we often wonder what all this has to do with religion, such passages about the Bodhisattva as the above, remind us of the fact that the text before us is, after all, a religious book. This religious character of the book is emphasized also in several chapters, in which the great merit to be acquired by the hearing and understanding, the reading and writing, and the learning and teaching of the Prajñā-Pāramitā, is praised over and over again in extravagant fashion.[^1)