King Trisong Detsen convened the Great Debate at Samye after Shantarakshita prophesied that a Chinese doctrine would threaten the dharma and urged that his student Kamalashila be summoned from India to defend the gradualist path against the Chan master Moheyan's teaching of sudden enlightenment — a contest the king ruled in favor of the Indian position, binding Tibetan Buddhism to the Indian scholastic tradition.
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