At 10:44 AM 19-05-05, libris wrote:

>My impression so far is that Buddhaghosa and those who follow his tradition (mostly the modern Sinhalese monks)are basically "scholar monks" lacking meditation experience.

I'm inclined to agree with you, Piya. I believe you must have read some rather "odd" interpretations in the commentaries such as that of Satipatthana Sutta.

While I must say that I have found quite a lot of useful information from the commentaries, very often too they tend to make us wonder if the monks who came up with them have so much time in their hand that they have nothing to do but... to write commentaries.

Bhante Aggacitta once commented on some absurdity of the atthakathas, "Why is Washington so named? Because they do a lot washing there."

kb