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INTRODUCTION
1 Akb-h pp. 133, 185, 235, 331, 333. Also see Sa-d p. 254, Sa-w p. 172.
2 Mv (TD27 403a): !"#$= !"#K= !"#$%&'()K
3 Vin I p. 10, MA (TD1 468b).
4 SA (TD2 88b).
5 tasmAd AbhiprAyikaP sEtreLu nirdeUo lAkLaOikas tv abhidharme, Akb-h p. 333.
6 See also ‘UpAdisesa within the context of nirvana’ in Chapter 2.
7 See La Vallée Poussin (1923: 908–10).
8 Gombrich (1996: 65).
9 Gombrich (1996: 21).
10 The Buddhist NirvAOa and Its Western Interpreters by Guy Richard Welbon.
11 Cousins (1999: 373).
12 Vibh pp. 72–3, 89, SN IV pp. 251–2.
13 Dhs pp. 74–5, 116–17. Also see BD pp. 24–5, 119.
14 DN I p. 156, II p. 92, MN I pp. 465–7, AN II p. 238.
15 Gombrich (1996: 66).
16 Gombrich (1996: 67).
17 Lamotte (1973: 8).
18 La Vallée Poussin (1928: 670–1).
19 Oldenberg (1882: 427– 45).
20 Lovejoy (1898).
21 Masefield (1979).
22 EA (TD2 579a).
23 BUCD, CSCD and PTSCD.
24 SLTP.
25 CETSCD.
26 Schrader (1905: 167–70).
27 Harvey (1990: 66–7).
28 DN II p. 157, MN I pp. 487–8, SN I p. 159, AN I p. 236, AN IV p. 3, Th p. 84,
Thc p. 116, Sn pp. 41, 206 and so on.
1 NIRVANA AND ITS REFERENCE
1 ‘We know what nirvAOa is as well as the Buddhists themselves did, and it is not
our fault if we are not able to give an unambiguous statement. The Buddhist felt
satisfied with a description which does not satisfy us, because, whereas we have
been for centuries trained to make our ideas clear, this was not the case with the
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