[Buddha-l] Anomalous doctrines [Lusthaus IV]

[Stephen Hodge]

Bradley Clough wrote:

> I, and I imagine others, would be interested in knowing which scholars in 
> which works make this case. I'm mostly aware of Tilmann Vetter making this 
> argument. Who else?

Actually, reviewing materials to hand, I perhaps overstated the case to 
speak of a broad consensus, perhaps tendency would be a better word to have 
used  -- many seem to play safe and avoid the issue, possibly because of the 
implicit, rather dire consequences for Buddhist doctrines as well as because 
of the difficulties involved in making a determination.  However, other 
scholars who discuss the problem include:

L. Schmidthausen: On some aspects of Descriptions or Theories of "Liberating 
Insight" in Early Buddhism, in Studien zum Jainismus und Buddhismus (1981)

J. Bronkhort, "The Two Traditions of Meditation in Ancient India" (1986)

R. Gombrich, Retracing an Ancient Debate: How Insight Worsted Concentration 
in the Pali Canon, in How Buddhism Began (1996)

L. de la Valle e Poussin, Musila et Narada: Le Chemin de Nirvana, in 
Melanges chinoises et bouddhiques 5 (1936)

As I mnetioned previously, the key to solving the problem involves 
establishing how and what the Buddha actually did preceding and at the 
moment of awakening according to the various recorded accounts.  Complicated 
!

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge