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are praised there by that bodhisattva. (This is explained
in Appendix I, Part Two, A, 4.)
d. Through the "sublimation in sunyata" doctrine, the
bodhisattva ascends to the Diamond Way, where Full
Enlightenment in this life is possible. To do this, one
requires a teaching praising great courage, and such is
the Mahayana. But the Hinayana teaches only the small
courage necessary for the attainment of arhatship. With
this small courage, one is far from Full Enlightenment;
this is useful only to carry one on to the Mahayana from
which the final vehicle can be followed.
In making these distinctions, I have no bias, and no
sectarianism between these yanas. What has been set
forth here will be seen, if examined carefully, to be
quite fair.
C. Mahayana Is not Negativism and the Six
Paramitas Are not Merit-Accumulations for Going
to Heaven
1. Even a scholar as famous as Takakusu treats the
prajnaparamita philosophy as negativism—a common
mistake. In China the San Lun School, which was based
upon the Three Sastras (Madhyamika Sastra and
Dvadasanikaya Sastra, both by Nagarjuna, and the Sata
Sastra of Aryadeva), used these works just for the
purpose of argument and the nature of their propositions
were negative in form. They employed these sastras and
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