[Buddha-l] Pudgalavada - Vasumitra

[Dan Lusthaus]

Re: [Buddha-l] Pudgalavada - VasumitraLance,
  Bareau takes this as:
  All sa.mskaaras have a momentary duration and are instantly destroyed (k.sa.nikaniruddha).




That's how Paramartha reads.
    Moreover, even non-Buddhists can attain the five ?ddhis.


  as in Theravaada

This seems to have been a bone of contention at that time, since Vasumitra, in his descriptions of some other schools, notes that they DON'T hold such a view, and insist the rddhis are purely within the domain of Buddhists.




    The five consciousnesses have no kleÊas, and are not apart from kleÊas.


  Bareau has viraaga and aviraaga which seems less likely. In any case it must be part of an abhidhamma analysis. Compare Vibh 319 in Pali where the five are given as asa.mkili.t.tha-sankilesika i.e. not defiled but subject to defilement.

He is following Paramartha. Xuanzang's reading obviously is more in line with the Pali.
  It is by [the four wholesome roots, viz.] k?Çnti, nÇma, nimitta, and laukikÇ agra-dharmÇ? (the highest meditative insight) that one can enter into the correct nature in which no kleÊas arise. (niyÇmÇvakrÇnti or samyaktva-niyÇma).



  This looks like a version of the nirvedhabhaagiya. A sort of cross between the Yogaacaarin and the Vaibhaa.sika versions ? Does Paramaartha omit this ?


No. His vocabulary is just not as precise:

X: It is by [the four wholesome roots, viz.] kṣānti, nāma, nimitta, and laukikā agra-dharmāḥ (the highest meditative insight) that one can enter into the correct nature in which no kleśas arise. (niyāmāvakrānti or samyaktva-niyāma).

P: Kṣānti, nāma, nimitta, and laukikā agra-dharmāḥ, these four stages are called correct meditation.



X: If entering niyāmāvakrānti during the twelve mental moments, this is called "Going toward" (pratipanna?).

P: If a person has already entered correct meditation within the twelve mental (moments), this is called approaching srota-āpanna.



  ???agirikas (Hidden in the Forests and Mountains).


  The last school seems unknown in inscriptions.

 .Saa'n.dagirikas (rendered Abiding in Hidden Forests by Paramartha) would indicate this school consisted of hermits, who would have had little use for the pomp and ceremony involved in constructing steles and inscriptions.

Dan Lusthaus
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