Controverted PointDhammaṭṭhitatā parinipphannāti? Theravādin:Is then the cause of causes predeterminedby something else? You deny. For if you assent, you commit yourself to this: that, because of the continued eventuating due to endless causation, there can never be an end made to Ill, nor any cutting off the round of rebirth, nor anyNibbānafree from the residual stuff of rebirth.Āmantā. by something elseTāya ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? Again, is the cause of any one of the five aggregates (body, mind) predetermined? If you assent, you commit yourself to the admission that the cause itself is predetermined by something else. And if you deny—and I insist, and take no denial—you, assenting, commit yourself to this—that there is, for this endless causation, no making an end of Ill, no cutting off of the round of rebirth, noNibbānawithout stuff of rebirth … .Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… Shwe Zan Aungtāya ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? This SuttaCentral edition was prepared byManfred WierichandVen. Vimalaand proofread byJosephine Tobin. Some changes were introduced:Āmantā. Manfred WierichTāya tāyeva natthi dukkhassantakiriyā, natthi vaṭṭupacchedo, natthi anupādāparinibbānanti? Ven. VimalaNa hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Josephine TobinRūpassa ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? 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.Āmantā. Abbreviations, i.e., those of cited works and the participants in the controversies, were expanded.Tāya ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? Cross-references were linked.Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… 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 ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? Letter-spacing with fixed spaces was replaced with bold font.Āmantā. The corrigenda were merged into the text. Some could not be resolved, though.Tāya tāyeva natthi dukkhassantakiriyā, natthi vaṭṭupacchedo, natthi anupādāparinibbānanti? 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/Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

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.Vedanāya ṭhitatā …pe… saññāya ṭhitatā …pe… saṅkhārānaṁ ṭhitatā …pe… viññāṇassa ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? Āmantā. Tāya ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe… tāya ṭhitatā parinipphannāti? Āmantā. Tāya tāyeva natthi dukkhassantakiriyā, natthi vaṭṭupacchedo, natthi anupādāparinibbānanti? Na hevaṁ vattabbe …pe….

Dhammaṭṭhitatākathā niṭṭhitā.