ABSTRACT
This chapter describes about the growing tendency in Sakya to a pre-occupation with, not things, but ideas about things. This finds fullest expression in the Third, or Abhidhamma Pitaka, by permission, a few considerations published elsewhere. The Pitaka had revealed much meticulous catechizing, some inconclusive dialectic, and quite a little world of word-permutations. Nothing more than that monastic regime is now associated with the First Pitaka. Incidentally much has been of suggestive usefulness, and indeed now and then of utmost value in the sifting grain of Sakya from chaff. In this way the survival of the Vinaya is infinitely more valuable in the search for Sakya than is the Third Pitaka. The Vinaya was largely framed to meet special cases. The Suttas were largely records of how other special cases were met. Mostly, that is, they were precepts ad hominem.
