--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "Stephen Hodge" <s.hodge@...> wrote:

> Bhante Sujato wrote:
>
> > I am quite familiar with the interpretation of vibhava as 'wanting
> > to get rid of'.
> Not sure if this is helpful, but all my Chinese and Tibetan sources
> understand the term in the sense of "destruction / cessation /
> annihilation".
>

Exactly.

Since the Pali tradition associates this with the ditthi of
annihilationism, i presume this implies that a sotapanna has no
vibhavatanha - is this right?

Bhante Sujato