Keren,

You might also like to refer to an annotated translation of the Potthapada
Sutta in dharmafarer.googlepages.com in the Introduction and the relevant
section. Click on the Digha icon, and you will find a number of annotated
translations of the Digha suttas.

Happy reading and awakening.

Piya

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On 9/18/06, Nina van Gorkom <vangorko@...> wrote:
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> Dear Keren,
> This passage is about Po.t.thapaada's belief in a soul. My PTS gives
> footnotes. The coarse one is a material soul, having rupa. We have to
> look at the Brahmajala sutta for such theories.
> The mind-made is also material, but very subtle.
> The aruupi is without ruupa, only mental.
> Thus this is in the context of theories about the soul or attaa.
> Nina.
> Op 17-sep-2006, om 8:08 heeft keren_arbel het volgende geschreven:
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>
> > I have a question regarding a passage in DN I.186-199.
> > Po.t.thapaada is declaring three types of self, and then the Buddha
> > is elaborating on this "acquired self" (attaa patilaabha):
> > the ol.aariko, the manomaya.m & the aruupi.m.
> >
> > It is the first time I see this analysis and I'm not sure what it
> > means.
>
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