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   From: lrudolph@panix.com   
      
   "Evelyn"  quotes (an old post of)   
   Richard Hayes:   
      
   >There is it said that for every icchantika there is a   
   >bodhisattva dedicated to bringing the icchantika to full realization of   
   >the Dharma.   
   ...   
   >It is said that only an icchantika can recognize another icchantika.   
      
   From these two sentences (separated by only a few lines)   
   it appears to follow that either the "bodhisattva dedicated   
   to bringing" a given "icchantika to full realization of the   
   Dharma" lives that dedication without be able to "recognize"   
   the given icchantika, or else each "bodhisattva dedicated   
   to bringing" some "icchantika to full realization of the   
   Dharma" is (though a bodhisattva) also "another icchantika".   
      
   I am willing to entertain either alternative (or both), but   
   am even more willing to be entertained by any precis that   
   may be forthcoming of the (presumably well-hashed-out)   
   scholarly explanation or refutation of this apparent   
   impasse.  The more the merrier.   
      
   Lee Rudolph   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)