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149 SA (TD2 57c8), SN IV 109.
150 These two steps are compared to throwing out a thief and closing the door or
the catching an insect in a jar and plugging the jar’s mouth, Mv (TD27 333c–
334a), La Vallée Poussin (1923: 949–50). See also ‘The Chinese abhidharma
works’ in Chapter 3.
151 See ‘Nirvana from the Sautrantika ontological perspective’ in this chapter.
152 See Akb-h p. 63, La Vallée Poussin (1923: 209–10) and Cox (1995: 94).
153 kim evaN neLyate nAsmin prAdurbhAva ity ato ’prAdurbhAva iti? asamarthAm etAN
saptamCN paUyAmaP. kim uktaN bhavati? nAsmin prAdurbhavatCti yadi satCty
abhisaNbadhyate, nityam evAprAdurbhAvaprasaWgaP nirvAOasya nityatvAt. atha
prApta ity abhisambadhyate yata eva tatprAptiP parikalpyate tasmiN sati mArge
prApte vA duPkhasyeLyatAm aprAdurbhAvaP, Akb-h p. 94.
154 tasmiN sati mArge prApte vA, Sa-w p. 221. Akb-h (p. 94) reads differently: when
it [noble path] is at hand or attained’ (tasmim eva saNmukhCbhEte prApte vA ).
155 See ‘Influence of the Buddhist theory of momentariness’ in Chapter 4.
156 Vism p. 432: nirvana is ‘cessation consisting in non-arising’.
157 Akb-h p. 92: the extinction through knowledge is, when latent defilements
(anuUaya) and life ( janman) that have already been produced are extinguished,
non-arising of further such by the power of knowledge (pratisaNkhyA).
158 Mmd-p p. 525, Stcherbatsky (1968: 201).
159 Na (TD29 432c–433a): !K= !K= !K= !K= !"#
K= !"#$%K= !"#$%K= !"#$%K= !"#
K= !"#$%K= !" #$K= !K= !K= !K=
K= !"#$ %&'(K= !K= !K= !"#$"K
!K= !K= !K
160 Anuruddha’s stanza and one sEtra in the SaNyukta-Agama (TD2 88a) quoted
by Vasubandhu (Akb-x p. 94) to support his view: nirvana is mere nonexistence:
‘That which is entire abandonment, relinquishment, coming to an
end, exhaustion, detachment, cessation, tranquillization, disappearance of [even]
the smallest suffering, and non-connection, non-arising, non-appearance of other
suffering, that is lovely, that is excellent – that is to say, abandonment of all
conditions, perishing of desire, detachment, cessation, nirvana.’ Cf. AN I 100, V
421, SN I 136.
161 Ud pp. 80–1. For these suttas, see Collins (1998: 164–75).
162 Akb-x (TD29 35a): !" #$%&'(K= !"#$%K= !K
163 Na (TD29 433a): !"#$%K= !"#$%K= !K= !
!K= !K= K= !"#$%K= !K= !K=
K
164 La Vallée Poussin (1923: 238).
165 La Vallée Poussin (1923: 239).
166 La Vallée Poussin (1923: 240), Mv (TD27 200c).
167 See ‘The Chinese abhidharma works’ in Chapter 3.
168 See also Cox (1995: 93–4).
169 SN IV pp. 399–400, MN III 245.
170 SU I 13.
171 ‘An expiring flame does not really go out, but returns into the primitive, pure,
invisible state of fire it had before its appearance as visible fire’ (Schrader 1905:
167).
172 See ‘The image of a fire extinguished in Vacchagotta’s question’ in Chapter 4.
173 Akb-x (TD29 35a). See this chapter, note 147.
174 SN IV pp. 399–400, MN III 245.
175 See ‘The PArAyaOa stanza in the SuttanipAta’ in Chapter 4.
176 Th-a III 71.
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