Fwd: Re: [Triplegem] Re: Duration of sasana

--- In Triplegem@..., Ong Teng Kee <ongtkee@...> wrote:
dear Robert,
I forgot to mention that most arahant  teachers in com
was living during 1,2,3 BC,most contemporary with
Mahinda.That Myanmar monk already did some research on
the stories.I think you didn't read the passage i am
taliking about in anguttara nipata that all fruitions
are possible only for first 1000 years but not beyond
that( from Anguttara bhanaka).The part is in Anguttara
com 8 th nipata was came from Vinaya com.Please let me
know did you read that part in pali or not.In digha
com we can only attain sakadagami at this 2000-3000
years but samyutta com didn't give the fixed time.
Amara seemed to make mistake about digha com.




-  -- robertkirkpatrick@... wrote:
> --- In Triplegem@..., Ong Teng Kee <ongtkee@...>
> wrote:
> > Dear Marlon,
> > I like give a view by a Myanmar monk who is
> teaching
> > in buddhist U. I got this view last year in
> Yangon.The
> > Buddha in Vinaya pitaka is correct for saying the
> true
> > dhamma will last for 500 years if we put it to
> mean
> > first 500 years will be arahant only but not after
> > that. For the next 500 years will be
> sakadagami,anagami
> > and sotapanna.This theory will be the same with
> > anguttara com in first nipata which said adhigamma
> > (attainment )period will only last 1000 years but
> not
> > after that.
> > That monk said the 8 garu dhamma  will not have
> much
> > change for the attainment of monks.
> >
> > _____________________
>
>
> Dear teng,
> This is very interesting. Thanks for letting us
> know. It is hard to
> reach any conclusion but good to get as many details
> and sources as
> possible. Which buddhist university was it?
> But I think there are too many refernces in the
> commentaries to
> arahants around 500-1000 years after the
> parinibbana, (Mahavihara in
> sri lanka etc) for this to be right.
> Could it be 500 years for arahnats with the
> threefold knowledge, 500
> for the six abhi~n~nas, 500are
> ubhatobhaaga vimutta, and then 500 for
> sukkhavipassaka arahant(then
> 1000 for anagami, 1000 for sakadagami, 1000 for
> sotapanna)?. Then the
> commenatry on bothy nipatas of the anguttara nikaya
> seems to line up.
> robert
>
>
>
> 
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