[Buddha-l] The Toulmiin link [Prebyters}

[jkirk]

On Aug 10, 2009, at 3:46 PM, jkirk wrote:

> Continuing, this typo "So other adhidharma experts.."
> serendipitously suggests that adhidharma is the mode on
Buddha-L.

In the standard glosses on the etymologically puzzling word
"abhidharma," one often sees "adhidharma," which could be
translated as something like "higher teachings." My favorite pun
on this was made by Ajahn Chah, who said that "abhidhamma" means
the same as "adhidhamma," and "adhidhamma" means the same as
"atidhamma," which in English means "too much dhamma."

Atirichard
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I don't know if you are kidding about what Ajahn Chah said, or
not. 
As I recall, in Hindi 'abhi' means 'right now'--so I like to
think of abhidharma as meaning 'dharma here and now'--- and
'adhi' means 'half'.  So  I was hinting that on Buddha-L we get
half-dharma most of the time. But then the usual hilarity
relieves us of our pedantic tendencies, which is probably a good
thing.

Joanna