[Buddha-l] Pudgalavada - Vasumitra

[Dan Lusthaus]

Re: [Buddha-l] Pudgalavada - VasumitraLance,


     .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.


  I don't think .Sa.n.dagirika can have this kind of meaning, although Paramaartha is giving exactly the kind of interpretation you would get in a commentary. Rather, .Sa.n.dagiri will be the name of a monastery.



.sa.n.da = group of trees (=forest)
giri = mountain, elevation, hill, high ground

That's clearly how Xuanzang understood it (Hidden in Forest and Mountains). Both Paramartha and Xuanzang add the "hidden".

I'm not sure how one can determine whether this is the name of a monastery or a characterization of the group without additional data.

Dan
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