[Buddha-l] Nirvana

[Hugo]

Hello Joy,

On 9/28/05, Joy Vriens <joy.vriens at nerim.net> wrote:
> No matter how one turns the Nirvana/immortality/deathless around, it
> remains contradictory if taken quite literally, whether one watches out
> or not. Or rather, especially when one watches out ;-)

:-)


> This text obviously dates from after the primitive Buddhist teachings
> had started to be "systematised" and some of the initial contradictions
> had been "clarified" but when pudgalavada hadn't been completely rooted
> out in spite of the many efforts to do so.

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Thanks for your comments, I am no scholar so I can't further comment,
but I appreciate the information.

Greetings,
--
Hugo