Re: L.S. Cousins & the dating of texts

Dear Jim,
Thank you, it is good if you now and then frwd an interesting discussion
from another list.
The Dispeller of Delusion (Co to the Book of Analysis) mentions after the
three kinds of disappearance: the three kinds of parinibbana. As to the
third it is explained that all the relics will go to the Great Wisdom Seat :
"Heaped up on the Great Wisdom Seat, they will become one solid mass like a
ppile of gold and will emit six-coloured rays..."
Last time we were in India someone read this text when sitting under the
Bodhi tree.
Is this perhaps the Abh Co cousins refers to? It is an important commentary.
Nina.   
op 28-07-2003 11:44 schreef Jim Anderson op jimanderson_on@...:


> I'm forwarding this response from L.S. Cousins who doesn't think that
> the doctrine of the 3 parinibbaanas could be pre-Asokan for the
> reasons he gives.