Dear Frank,

> Further comments and thoughts:
> 1) isn't samma sambuddha (thoroughly completely
> awakened being) rendundant, like atm machine
> (automated teller machine machine)? Isn't sambuddha
> sufficient? Does anyone else find it troubling that
> "completely" isn't complete enough, and one needs to
> qualify that with "thoroughly"?

I think "sam" in "sambuddha" can be rendered as a reflexive "sa.m" meaning
"self", that is "self-enlightened". I leave the specialists to back me up,
if I have a case.

Sukhi.

P.