[Buddha-l] bodhi

[Artur Karp]

At 08:19 2009-11-27, you wrote:
>Hi, Artur, In a sense you are preaching to the already converted.


Dan, I do not know why, but your letter (read first yesterday from the net 
version of the UW mail-service) couldn't be accessed from my Eudora. It 
finally arrived a couple of minutes ago, but in extremely garbled form.

adhigacchati - let me meditate some on the meanings involved. In my case 
it's slightly more complicated: while using the dictionary I have to have 
in mind the Polish equivalents. If many meanings are "lost in translation" 
when the original Pali is translated into English, my Polish translations 
from the original Pali depend to a large extent on an  English 
intermediary, and that is the PED.

adhigata (PED 28) - "got into possession of, conquered, attained, found". 
This selection of meanings seems to exclude that one-way exchange between 
the giver and the receiver. What is suggested is possessing, winning. 
Attaining, not obtaining. Finding.

And, BTW  I do not know Chinese.

Regards,

Artur K.