[Buddha-l] Conservative and liberal Buddhists

[Richard Hayes]

There is a way to make a file available to the public. A quick way is  
to send it to me,  and I can put it on a public space if that is  
legal.   I'll send information on a different way a bit later.

Richard Hayes


On May 26, 2010, at 17:36, "Dan Lusthaus" <vasubandhu at earthlink.net>  
wrote:

>>> Bibhuti Yadav, "Negation, Nirvana, Nonsense," publ. in the JAAS  
>>> back in
>>> 1977, available as a free download at
>>> http://openpdf.com/ebook/nirvana-pdf.html
>>
>> Getting this requires a having a subscription to JAAR.
>
> That appears to be the case. Sorry. I have a copy. Is there a way to  
> post
> the pdf to the buddha-l server so that those interested can download  
> a copy?
>
>
>
>> It's hard to believe that Nāga and Candra would regard nirvāṇa as
>> nonsense, but I'll wait to read the article to find out.
>
> It is logical nonsense, a Buddhist chimera. They are not rejecting it
> because of prior commitments to some form of materialism or  
> humanism. But
> let Yadav explain it...
>
> The piece also gives Candrakirti's delicious response to type-A  
> grammarians
> and narrow-minded philologists:
>
> na hi śabdāḥ dāṇḍapāśikā iva vaktāramasvatantrayanti,  
> kiṁ tarhi satyāṁ
> śaktau vakturvivakṣāmanuvidhīyante |
> (Prasannapadā in the commentary to MMK 1.3, p. 9 in the Shastri edit 
> ion)
>
> "Words are not policemen..."
>
> Dan
>
>
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