Re: [INDOLOGY] Mahātipiṭaka Cūl̥ābhaya

[Madhav Deshpande]

Thanks, Dan.  Will see if I can locate the issue of Journal Asiatique.

Madhav

Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan
[Residence: Campbell, California]


On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:45 PM Dan Lusthaus via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> I should add, that like with a previous query, this is another case of an
> earlier and later figure sharing the same name (the later
> MAHĀ-Tipiṭaka-Cūḷābhaya is 12th c., while the earlier one described by
> Malalasekera is considered pre-Buddhaghosa). I don’t believe that Jaini,
> who edited the Milinda-ṭīkā, identified the author of that commentary, but,
> since it cites Buddhaghosa, it must be by someone post-Buddhaghosa. Cf.
> http://enlight.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-AN/an343601.pdf
>
> Barua is quoting Walpola Rahula re: the 12th c Theravādin commentator who
> wanted to become a Buddha, with the reference: Walpola, R. 1971. L'ideal du
> Bodhisatta dans le Theravāda et le Mahāyāna. Journal Asiatique: 69.
>
> I don’t have access to that Journal at the moment, so can’t check to see
> what sources Rahula was drawing on. Perhaps someone else has it on hand.
>
> Dan
>
> On Sep 29, 2018, at 9:01 PM, Dan Lusthaus via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> G.P. Malalasekera’s Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names offers the following.
>
> http://www.softerviews.org/AIM/DPPN/culabhaya.html
>
> 3. Cūḷābhaya.– A Thera of Sri Lanka and a well-known commentator; he was
> known as Tipiṭaka-Cūḷābhaya. He is several times quoted in the Commentaries
> (e.g., VibhA.11, 16; Vism.69, 394, 397). He had a prodigious memory. Once
> he shut three of the gates of Anurādhapura
> <http://www.softerviews.org/AIM/DPPN/anuradhapura.html>, allowing only
> one door for the use of those leaving the city. As each person went out he
> asked his name, and each of these names he was able to repeat when the
> owner returned in the evening to the city (DA.ii.530). He was a
> contemporary of Cūḷanāga
> <http://www.softerviews.org/AIM/DPPN/culanaga.html> (DhsA.230;
> SA.iii.206), with whom he held discussions. His description (given at the
> Lohapāsāda) (DA.ii.442) of the details connected with the first words
> uttered by the Buddha after his birth, and the manner in which he walked,
> is accepted as authentic. He once went with a company of monks on a
> pilgrimage to Nāgadīpa <http://www.softerviews.org/AIM/DPPN/nagadipa.html>.
> On the way he stayed in a monastery. One of his followers, who lacked
> self-control, made friends with another of like temperament in the vihāra,
> and Cūḷābhaya, seeing them laugh aloud, pointed out how truly the Buddha
> had said in the Dhātusaṃyutta that like joins with like. VibhA.457 f.
>
> Dan
>
> On Sep 29, 2018, at 8:28 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> In an article by Ankur Barua [
> http://introductiontoappliedbuddhism.blogspot.com/2009/10/bodhisatta-concept-in-theravada.html],
> I came across this reference: "Theravādin author who wished to become a
> Buddha by following the Bodhisatta-yāna is the `Sri Lankan
> monk Mahā-Tipitaka Cūlābhaya. In his subcommentary on the “Questions of
> King Milinda” during the twelfth-century, he wrote that he wished to
> become a Buddha at the end of his work."  Is this commentary the same as
> the Milindaṭīkā published by the PTS, or a different commentary?  The
> Milinda-Aṭṭhakathā of U Nārada alias Mingun Zetavun Sayadaw that was
> written around 1948 and transcribed and published by me [Studia Philologica
> Buddhica, Monograph Series XIII, Tokyo, The International Institute for
> Buddhist Studies, 1999] refers to the opinion of a
> Tipiṭaka-Cūl̥ābhayatthera on p.57.  I would appreciate any information on
> this monk and his commentary on Milindapañha. Is it available anywhere?
> Best,
>
> Madhav M. Deshpande
> Professor Emeritus
> Sanskrit and Linguistics
> University of Michigan
> [Residence: Campbell, California]
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