Kathavatthu 4.6.2

4.6.2.1

Bodhiyā buddhoti?

Is one a Buddha by awakening?

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.

4.6.2.2

Āmantā.

Yes.

4.6.2.3

Atītāya bodhiyā buddhoti?

Is one a Buddha by past awakening?

4.6.2.4

Na hevaṃ vattabbe …pe…

It should not be said thus …pe…

4.6.2.5

atītāya bodhiyā buddhoti?

Is he awakened by past awakening?

4.6.2.6

Āmantā.

Yes.

4.6.2.7

Tāya bodhiyā bodhikaraṇīyaṃ karotīti?

Does he perform the task of awakening through that awakening?

4.6.2.8

Na hevaṃ vattabbe …pe….

It should not be said thus …pe….