[Buddha-l] Conservative and liberal Buddhists

[Dan Lusthaus]

>> 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 edition)

"Words are not policemen..."

Dan