Samyé Debate

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Kamalashila

Samyé Debate - The historic debate that took place in Samyé Monastery around 792 between the Indian scholar Kamalashila and the Chinese Master known as Hvashang Mahayana. It is described in the Testament of Ba.

Further Reading

  • Leonard van der Kuijp, 'Miscellanea to a Recent Contribution on/to the bSam-yas Debate', Kailash, 1984
  • David Seyfort Ruegg, 'On the Tibetan Historiography and Doxography of the "Great Debat of Bsam yas"' in The Buddhist Philosophy of the Middle, Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2010, pp. 253-265