Controverted PointBodhiyā buddhoti? Theravādin:If it is in virtue of “enlightenment” that one becomes “The Enlightened”, then it follows that, in virtue of the cessation, suspension, subsidence of enlightenment, he ceases to be The Enlightened—this you deny, but you imply it.Āmantā. Or is one The Enlightened only in virtue of past enlightenment? Of course you deny this—then my previous point holds. If you assent, do you mean that one who is The Enlightened exercises the work of enlightenment by that past enlightenment only? If you assent, you imply that he understands Ill, puts away its cause, realizes its cessation, develops the Eightfold Path thereto, by that past enlightenment—which is absurd.Bodhiyā niruddhāya vigatāya paṭipassaddhāya abuddho hotīti? then my previous point holdsNa hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Substitute for “past”, “future” enlightenment, and the same argument applies.Bodhiyā buddhoti? Let us assume that one is called The Enlightened through present enlightenment: if you assert that he exercises the work of enlightenment through present enlightenment, you must also affirmby analogythat if he is called The Enlightened through past, orthrough future enlightenment, it is by that that he understands Ill, puts away its cause, and so on—which you deny.Āmantā. by analogyAtītāya bodhiyā buddhoti? Forif an enlightened person, so-called in virtue of past, orof future enlightenment, does not exercise the work of enlightenment, through one or the other respectively, thenby analogyone who is enlightened by present enlightenment does not exercise enlightenment through that present enlightenment—which is absurd.Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… by analogyatītāya bodhiyā buddhoti? Do you then affirm that one is called The Enlightened through past, present, and future enlightenment? Then, are there three enlightenments? If you deny, your affirmationby the foregoingcannot stand. If you assent, you imply that he, being continually, constantly, uninterruptedly gifted with and intent through three enlightenments, these three are simultaneously present to him—which you of course deny.Āmantā. by the foregoingTāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Uttarāpathaka:But surely one who is called The Enlightened is one who has acquired enlightenment? How is my proposition wrong?Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Uttarāpathaka:Tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Theravādin:You assume that one is called The Enlightened from having acquired enlightenment, or by enlightenment—is enlightenment the same as the acquiring of enlightenment?Āmantā. Shwe Zan AungTāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti, samudayaṁ pajahati, nirodhaṁ sacchikaroti, maggaṁ bhāvetīti? This SuttaCentral edition was prepared byManfred WierichandVen. Vimalaand proofread byJosephine Tobin. Some changes were introduced:Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Manfred WierichBodhiyā buddhoti? Ven. VimalaĀmantā. Josephine TobinAnāgatāya bodhiyā buddhoti? Abbreviations, i.e., those of cited works and the participants in the controversies, were expanded.Cross-references were linked.Some typographic changes were introduced, among others, i.e.: the phonetic symbol “ŋ” was changed to the Pāli diacritical letter “ṃ”, “ô” to “o”, single quotes to double quotes, and “:—” to “:”.Letter-spacing with fixed spaces was replaced with bold font.The corrigenda were merged into the text. Some could not be resolved, though.Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Abbreviations, i.e., those of cited works and the participants in the controversies, were expanded.Anāgatāya bodhiyā buddhoti? Cross-references were linked.Āmantā. Some typographic changes were introduced, among others, i.e.: the phonetic symbol “ŋ” was changed to the Pāli diacritical letter “ṃ”, “ô” to “o”, single quotes to double quotes, and “:—” to “:”.Tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Letter-spacing with fixed spaces was replaced with bold font.Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

The corrigenda were merged into the text. Some could not be resolved, though.Tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? This electronic version is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 3.0 licence (CC BY-NC 3.0) as found here:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/Āmantā. All copyright is owned by the Pali Text Society. See also the statement under http://www.palitext.com/ → Publications → Copyright Announcement. For non-commercial use only.Tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Āmantā. Atītāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti, samudayaṁ pajahati, nirodhaṁ sacchikaroti, maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Āmantā. Atītāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Āmantā. Anāgatāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Āmantā. Anāgatāya bodhiyā buddho, tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Atītāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Āmantā. Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Atītāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Āmantā. Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Anāgatāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Āmantā. Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṁ karotīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Anāgatāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Āmantā. Paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddho, na ca tāya bodhiyā dukkhaṁ parijānāti …pe… maggaṁ bhāvetīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Atītāya bodhiyā buddho, anāgatāya bodhiyā buddho, paccuppannāya bodhiyā buddhoti? Āmantā. Tīhi bodhīhi buddhoti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Tīhi bodhīhi buddhoti? Āmantā. Satataṁ samitaṁ abbokiṇṇaṁ tīhi bodhīhi samannāgato samohito, tisso bodhiyo paccupaṭṭhitāti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Na vattabbaṁ—“bodhiyā buddho”ti? Āmantā. Nanu bodhipaṭilābhā buddhoti? Āmantā. Hañci bodhipaṭilābhā buddho, tena vata re vattabbe—“bodhiyā buddho”ti.

Bodhipaṭilābhā buddhoti, bodhiyā buddhoti? Āmantā. Bodhipaṭilābhā bodhīti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Bodhiyā buddhotikathā niṭṭhitā.