Dear All,

I didn't realise that attachments are part of the 'non-text-portions' which
get removed. If anyone is interested in this please just email me personally
and I can email it to you directly rather than through the group.

The three emptiness sutras here are really great, short and profound. The
first one is similar to SN 35.85 except it has Samiddhi instead of Ananda,
and instead of 'sunnya.m attena' it has 'sassataaviparinaamadhammena
sunnya.m', the second says, 'and what is the great exposition of emptiness?
- idhappaccayataa and paticcasamuppada'. Which is one of the most important
points in Nagarjuna, and the third is very similar to a part from the
Visuddhimagga about contemplating impermanence but which is not found in the
Paali Canon. I did this initially because I plan to possibly include the
last two in the new bigger chanting book I'm working on. Here's the
descriptive blurb from the beginning:


These three suttas were presented in Choong Mun Keat's* **'The Notion of
Emptiness in Early Buddhism'* with an English translation based on the
Chinese and a Sanskrit reconstruction by Lamotte for the first and last, and
for the second one an edition made by Trīpāṭhī from a Sanskrit manuscript,
in a more recent publication *'Annotated Translation of Sūtras from the
Chinese Saṁyuktāgama relevant to the Early Buddhist Teachings on Emptiness
and the Middle Way'* the foreword says that eight discourses on emptiness
and-or paṭiccasamuppāda, including three not found in Pāli, which probably
includes the third one here, have been found in a Sanskrit manuscript
excavated in Turfan. This is my first attempt at translating Buddhist Hybrid
Sanskrit into Pāli, please be kind enough to point out any errors.


Mettaya, Bhikkhu Santidhamma.

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From: bh. santi <bh.santi@...>
Date: 07-Jan-2006 16:43
Subject: revised version of Three Emptiness Sutras
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Dear All,

here's a little offering, I may have put this one on the Pali page before
but now I've checked it and added alot more notes and references.

Mettaya,

Bhikkhu Santidhamma.


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