[Buddha-l] Re: Filtered Buddhism

[Dan Lusthaus]

Hi Stephen,

> Just a small point of information: the Tibetan "ci dgar" normally
translates
> "yathe.s.ta" or sometimes "yathaa kaama".  Based on Xuanzang's equivalent,
I
> think the former is most likely.

As Freud said, sometimes a good ci dgar is just a ci dgar.

As you say, the meaning remains the same, and, bottom-line, we don't know
exactly what the Sanskrit was.

cheers,
Dan