The University of Nalanda c10.43

c10.43

Śāntideva in his *Śikṣā-Samuccaya*, whose summary we give below, makes out a very strong case for Mahāyāna. He quotes from *Niyatāniyatāvatāramudrā-Sūtra* wherein the Master tells the disciple, " Even so, Mañjuśrī, whosoever after producing the thought of enlightenment holdeth not fast, neither studieth the Great Vehicle, but has intercourse with such as follow the Disciple's Vehicle, and is intimate with them and readeth their doctrine, and maketh his study therein, and proveth it, and informeth him thereof, and reciteth its topics . . . . . teacheth them, he thereby becometh dull of wit, and is torn away and cast back from the Road of the Highest Wisdom. And whatsoever organ of wisdom, eye of wisdom this Bodhisatva may have gained through meditating upon enlightenment, this eye becomes dull and obstructed."⁴