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by jayarava
Thu Dec 14, 2017 9:46 am
Forum: Connections to Other Paths
Topic: bodhisakta not bodhisattva?
Replies: 23
Views: 6357

Re: bodhisakta not bodhisattva?

It is very late in the day, but it might be worth point out for posterity that Buddhist manuscripts never, to the best of my knowledge, use the classical spelling bodhisattva . They spell the word bodhisatva (one 't'). The spelling has been tacitly (over)corrected by modern editors to make it confor...
by jayarava
Fri Sep 29, 2017 1:20 pm
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Caroline Rhys Davids, D.Litt
Replies: 10
Views: 1921

Re: Caroline Rhys Davids, D.Litt

With a bit more sleuthing I have confirmed that Rhys Davids's D.Litt was an honorary degree conferred by Manchester University in 1919. I've updated the Wikipedia article.
by jayarava
Thu Sep 28, 2017 8:46 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Caroline Rhys Davids, D.Litt
Replies: 10
Views: 1921

Re: Caroline Rhys Davids, D.Litt

Whatever school would almost assuredly have a list of honorary awards too. You would think so, but I have contacted London University (where she worked at the time) and they don't have any record of awarding Rhys Davids any kind of doctorate. So if it was honorary and it wasn't from LU, that makes ...
by jayarava
Fri Sep 08, 2017 11:46 am
Forum: General Theravāda discussion
Topic: Caroline Rhys Davids, D.Litt
Replies: 10
Views: 1921

Caroline Rhys Davids, D.Litt

For some time now I have been trying to track down information about exactly when, and for what, Caroline Rhys Davids received her D.Litt. It seems to be sometime between 1915 and 1925. I assume that it was from the University of London where she worked at the time. Does anyone know anything about t...
by jayarava
Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:24 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

Last night I was looking again at Noa Ronkin's book Early Buddhist Metaphysics . In the chapter "Causation as the Handmaid of Metaphysics" she summarises the 24 conditions as found in the Paṭṭhāna in a very helpful way. What it now seems to me is that the functions of accumulating and pass...
by jayarava
Thu Jun 26, 2014 6:42 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

If all you want is a brief answer to "Where is all this kamma stored? " . Nagasena replied to milinda “Kamma is not stored somewhere in this fleeting consciousness nor in any part of the body. But dependent on mind and body, it rests, manifesting itself at the opportune moment, just as ma...
by jayarava
Wed Jun 25, 2014 11:40 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

So because of samanantara paccaya , and other conditions , there is the continuity and accumulating. Visuddhimagga" (XVII, 68) Vism XVII.68 is just a general description of what a condition is. And contiguity between two cittas is just a statement that one follows another (Vism XVII.73-76) So ...
by jayarava
Wed Jun 25, 2014 10:56 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

The bhavanga is a bit of a red herring for explaing how accumulations are carried on. What about all the vitthi cittas that arise in between bhanga cittas? In fact accumulations are carried forward citta by citta, whether it be bhavanga or cakkhu vinnana, or javana etc. Nama is not not like rupa, (...
by jayarava
Wed Jun 25, 2014 7:15 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

My other find in the library yesterday was Gethin, Rupert. 'Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma.' in The Buddhist Forum . Vol III. T. Skorupski and U. Pagel (eds.), London: School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, pp. 11–35. Gethin works through the details of bhava...
by jayarava
Tue Jun 24, 2014 2:59 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

I had a fruitful trip to the library today. Questions about the persistence of latent dispositions and accumulation of karmic potential thus remain: once the cognitive processes are activated, are they transmitted through the six modes of cognitive awareness? If so, why do they not influence these f...
by jayarava
Tue Jun 24, 2014 10:03 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

Here are a few more links I've dug up regarding bhavang citta Thanks. One or two leads in this lot. Particularly pakati-upanissaya-kamma which at least one of the posters relates to just the function I am trying to understand. It will require a bit more research, but it seems that a citta which is ...
by jayarava
Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:45 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

Hi Santa100 So per the Vism, kamma and vipaka don't get stored into some kind of immutable and centralized "repository", instead they're continuously and dynamically re-inforced or weakened from life to life with the patisandhiVinnana acting as the "link". Well OK, but this is no...
by jayarava
Mon Jun 23, 2014 10:23 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

Namaste Pesala, Now we are getting closer to the heart of the matter. I think you are right to say that Theravāda orthodoxy would reject the ālayavijñāna as eternalistic. However the problem, to which it is the solution, remains. You hint that habits are karmically significant and I'd like to probe ...
by jayarava
Mon Jun 23, 2014 6:45 am
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

Members, Please note that this thread is the Classical Theravada section, which is here to allow technical discussion. Discussion about whether such technical discussion is important is off topic in this section. Please stick to the topic at hand. :anjali: Mike Hi Mike With respect, I'm seeking tec...
by jayarava
Sun Jun 22, 2014 3:51 pm
Forum: Classical Theravāda
Topic: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth
Replies: 42
Views: 16872

Re: Kamma, Vipaka and Rebirth

jayarava, does this help at all...? No. Again the issue is carefully avoided. And again I'm not looking for general outlines of karma. Here's a contrast. In the Sarvātivāda school they asked themselves how a short lived dharma like a cetanā could continue to act as a condition long after it had cea...