Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c5.s2.t11.5
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c5.s2.t11.5
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c5.s2.t11.5
² It will be observed that the remarks of Nāgārjuna and other early Mahāyāna writers are mostly directed against the realism of the Sarvāstivādins. The *Madhyamakāvatāra* cannot help admitting that the Hinayānists also teach śūnyatā as much as the Mahāyānists do (see *Le Muséon*, Vol. VIII, p. 271) but in the general attack of the Mahāyānists against the Hinayānists, they hold the latter as *Aśūnyavādins* evidently keeping the Sarvāstivādins in mind.