[Buddha-l] Re: Where does authority for "true" Buddhism come from?

[Stephen Hodge]

Robert Morrison wrote:

> Stephen Hodge in reply (hello Stephen):
Hi to you too, Robert !

> This 'standard' 12 seems to be what the tradition mistakenly comes to
> identify as 'conditioned-arising'.  There are many other more interesting
> lists in the suttas.
Precisely !  There are indeed many of these which are ignored by those who 
follow a standardized interpretation of depedent arising -- probably the 
underlying implications for the compilation of the Nikayas are too 
unsettling for many.  I have compiled a preliminary list of these that I 
could post later.

> Frauwallner thinks that the avijjaa bit was stuck on later when
> there was a shift from seeing the problem as affective (ta'nhaa) to one of
> knowledge (avijjaa).
This is what I was alluding to when I wrote "for reasons that concern a 
different concept of the path and its goal" -- I just did not what to get 
side-tracked into this area as I am sure that it will provoke many 
bytesworth of uninformed discussion.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge