I can really empathize with that. :-)

To be fair, even in MLDB, he mentioned in the introduction that including a comment from the commentaries doesn't mean he agrees with it. It's nonetheless more heartening to see in CDB that he is willing to voice his disagreement, sometimes citing concrete evidence from the Suttas.

Kumara, a disciple of the Buddha

Mahinda Palihawadana wrote thus at 14:02 20/01/2012:

>It's very encouraging to hear this about Bhiikhu Bodhi. I was always a bit
>disappointed with the excessive reliance on commentaries that we can see in
>the work of Bhikkhus Nyanatiloka, Nanaponika and Bodhi.
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>Mahinda
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