[Buddha-l] Pudgalavada - Vasumitra

[Stephen Hodge]

Dear Dan / Lance,

Here are a few modifications / corrections to Dan's translation of 
Vasumitra.

DL/X: If the bonds (saṃyojana) are eliminated by cultivation (bhāvanā-mārga) 
in the kāma-dhātu, one is called "free from desire." They aren't eliminated 
in darśana (-mārga).
SH/X: If one eliminates the bonds [associated with] the kâma-dhâtu to be 
eliminated by cultivation (bhāvanā-prahātavya), one is said to be "free from 
desire", but not in the case of those to be eliminated by seeing 
(darśana-prahâtavya).

DL/P: The bonds (saṃyojana) associated with the kāma-dhātu are negated 
through the bhāvanā-mārga. If a person is able to eliminate (them), then he 
attains "elimination of desire." If they are negated through the 
darśana-mārga in the kāma-dhātu, then it is not as good as that.
SH/P: As for the bonds (saṃyojana) associated with the kāma-dhātu to be 
eliminated by the bhāvanā-mārga, when a person has eliminated them, he 
attains the "elimination of desire". This is not so in the case of those 
associated wuth the kāma-dhātu which are to be eliminated by the path of 
seeing.

> The third item, in Chinese, is xiang, an infamously multi-semantic term, 
> which can be used
> to render lakṣaṇa, ākāra, nimitta, liṅga, etc.
It's not nimitta or âkâra at all. The "xiang" here is the wrong character --  
it should be the "sa.mj~naa" xiang ! See Thien Chau p90 and corresponding 
Chinese for details.  [NB for Lance: I am referring to the English 
translation of "Literature of the Personalists"]

DL/P: If one takes cessation to be collected/categorized with them, then 
generally there are six types (?).
SH/P If one subsumes them under cessation, there are six types in total.

Best wishes,
Stephen Hodge