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- Sun Nov 28, 2010 4:47 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Looking for a term.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3491
Re: Looking for a term.
In the Mahāsaccakasutta there is a formula “ abhabbā va te ñāṇāya dassanāya anuttarāya sambodhāya ”: they are incapable ( abhabba ) of knowing, seeing and of the ultimate awakening. It speaks about those have not withdrawn from sense-pleasures, thus it is not an intrinsic handicap but a result of la...
- Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:59 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Diacritic marks
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3563
Re: Diacritic marks
I did a little research on the CSCD and found that the closest version to the Pāli chant linked above is perhaps the Mettākathā of the Paṭisambhidamagga (Paṭis ii.22, PTS ii.131). In the Idriyavāra, the chapter immediately following the Mettākathā, there is a kindred formula that, related to each of...
- Thu Nov 18, 2010 3:50 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: the great rebirth debate
- Replies: 7548
- Views: 1331248
Re: Suttas relevant to Rebirth?
DN 28 http://tipitaka.wikia.com/wiki/Sampasadaniya_Sutta" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Moreover, lord, this too is unsurpassable : the way namely in which the Exalted One teaches the Norm concerning descensions at rebirth : — That there are four modes in descension, thus ...
- Thu Nov 18, 2010 2:53 am
- Forum: Lounge
- Topic: Luminous, is the mind!
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6491
Re: Luminous, is the mind!
I think it is a beatiful passage.
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:27 pm
- Forum: Classical Theravāda
- Topic: Visuddhimagga VIII, 216: Also in suttas? Where?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1617
Re: Visuddhimagga VIII, 216: Also in suttas? Where?
I agree with Mike. I think that the episode appears elsewhere only in Paṭisambhidāmagga-Aṭṭhakathā (PTS ii.498).
- Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:48 pm
- Forum: Pāli
- Topic: Pali pronunciation
- Replies: 76
- Views: 182281
Re: Pali pronunciation
Because the second last is long (gacchāmi).