waryoffolly wrote: ↑Wed Jun 23, 2021 1:51 pm
Does anyone have references for the above claims? Specifically:
1. The claim that there was debate at the time of Buddhagosa about including the kathavatthu in the abhidhamma pitaka
2. References to scholarly text-critical work that suggests the kathavatthu was open to additions long after the usual date the abhidhamma pitaka/canon is considered closed.
For number 1, this is from Buddhaghosa's commentary to the Kathavatthu:
ADORATION to the Exalted One, the Arahan the perfectly
enlightened.
Seated in devaworld and surrounded by the company of
devas, he, the unrivalled person, teacher of earth and of
devas, skilled in all terms and concepts-the supreme person,
ending his discourse on designations : the ' Designation of
Human Types,' eta., set forth in outline the book of the
Points of Controversy, giving an account of ' person ' and
similar controverted points. By just the table of contents
thus laid down in delectable mansions, Moggali's son filled
out, here on earth, the full detail. Now, inasmuch as*the
way for the comment is achieved, I will comment thereon.
Listen attentively I
After the display of the Twin-Miracle, the Exalted One
spent the rains in the city of the Thrice Ten, beneath the Coral
Tree, on the Papdukapbala Rock. (And there) making his
mother pesent0 witness, he discoursed to the assembly of
devas on matters of extra-dhamma. After he had expounded
tba Dhammasafigapi, the Vibhanga, the DhLtukathit
and the Puggala-pamatti treatises, he thought: " When in
future the turn for expounding the EathBvatthu shall arrive,
my disciple, the greatly wise Thera Tissa, son of Moggali,
having purged the blemishes that have arisen in the teaching
(s%ama), and holding a Third Gouncil will, seated in the
midst of the Order, divide this compilation into a thousand
discourses ), five hundred being assigned to his own
views (Sakavdin.s)five hundred to views of his opponents
(Paravadins)." Making occasion for this, beginning with
an eight-sectioned inquiry into the theory of ' person ' in four
questions, each of two fivefold divisions, he drew up, with
respect to the course to be adopted in all the discourses, a
table of contents in a text uncompleted by just one section
,for recitation< Then delivering in detail the remainder of
the Abhidhamma discourse, after he had spent the rains, he
descended by the jewelled stairway that was in the midst of
the gold and silver stairways from the world of devas to the
city of Sarikassa, and so accomplishing the welfare of beings,
attained Parinibbana by the nibbana-conditions without
remainder.1
and further:
At that assembly Elder Tissa, moggali's son, to avert all
bases of heresy that had arisen, and that might in the future
arise, analysed in detail the heads of discourse, by the method
which had been delivered by the Master, into 600 orthodox
statements and 600 heterodox statements, 1,000 in all, uttered
and the collection1 of the Points of Controversy, the salient
feature of which was the crushing of a11 dissentient views.
Thereupon, selecting one thousand monks who were learned
in the Three Pitakas and versed in the Four Patisambhidiis,
just as the Elder, Kassapa the Great (at the First Council,
had) recited Dhamma and Vinaya, so did he, reciting, after
purging the religion of its stains, hold the Third Council.
And in reciting the Abhidhamma, he incorporated in the
body thereof this collection, even as he uttered it.
As it is said:-" (He-i,e., the Buddha) set forth in outline
the Collection of the Points of Controversy, giving an account
of ' person ' and such controverted points. By the mere
table of contents thus laid down in delectable mansions
Moggali's son filled out, here on earth, the full detail.