Re: How to explain the ablatives uppādā and anuppādā?

Hi Robert,

Ven. Bodhi is the expert and I have nothing much to add.

I suppose he means that rather than the ablative with va, the locative with api should be used, e.g. tathāgatānaṃ uppādepi anuppādepi.

But the sentence as it stands doesn't sound too off either, because the ablative of causation is intended, e.g. " Not from the arising or the non-arising of Tathagathas is this principle."

~anand

Dear Robert,

could it be: in the case of the arising of Tathathagas and of the non-arising of tathagatas?

Thus, the ablative stands for: in the case of..

Nina