- 1. Buddhism and its Relation to Religion and Science
- (Marginalia)
- ... by a wavy line: X p. 149/12 [na ca so na ca añño] u/l: This celebrated phrase is not to be found in the Suttas. It occurs in the Milinda. p. 149/27-30 [Things...present themselves exactly ...
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- 2. [L. 39 | 46] 3 March 1963
- (1963)
- Dear Mr. Samaratunga, Many thanks for your letter, which gives me the opportunity of clarifying certain things about Notes on Dhamma. I quite see that the sentence referring to the Milindapañha as ...
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- 3. [L. 55 | 62] 3 July 1963
- (1963)
- I have just glanced at the Huxley. I think it is of importance to emphasize that wherever he uses the word 'religion' this has absolutely no connexion (whatever he may think about it) with the essence ...
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- 4. [L. 72 | 79] 24 November 1963
- (1963)
- ... to you, it is already a considerable advance to have grasped that 'contact' is primarily 'an appropriation by a misconceived self' (to use your own words). By way of contrast, here is the Milindapañha's account ...
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- 5. [L. 36 | 43] 29 June 1962
- (1962)
- ... you attribute to the Buddha—are neither of them to be found in the Suttas. They occur for the first time in the Milindapañha, and there is no evidence at all that they were ever taught by the Buddha. ...
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- 6. RŪPA
- (Shorter Notes)
- ... the four mahābhūtā; and for practical purposes—which is ultimately all we are concerned with—space can be regarded as a quasi-material element. But the Milindapañha has no business whatever to put ākāsa ...
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- 7. PAṬICCASAMUPPĀDA
- (Shorter Notes)
- ... This contradiction can only be concealed by verbal legerdemain. (The origin of this misleading notion, as of so many others in the traditional interpretation, seems to be the Milindapañha, which, to judge ...
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- 8. NA CA SO
- (Shorter Notes)
- Na ca so na ca añño, 'Neither he nor another'. This often-quoted dictum occurs in the Milindapañha somewhere, as the answer to the question 'When a man dies, who is reborn—he or another?'. This question ...
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- 9. ANICCA
- (Shorter Notes)
- ... This third characteristic answers the question What? —i.e. 'Is this the same thing that was, or is it another?' (see ATTĀ)—: it does not, as the argument Na ca so na ca añño in the Milindapañha mistakenly ...
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- 10. PARAMATTHA SACCA
- (Notes on Dhamma)
- ... It is quite possible that the notion of paramattha sacca, 'truth in the highest, or ultimate, or absolute, sense' was in existence before the time of the Milindapañha; but its use there (Pt. II, Ch. 1 ...
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