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Abhidhammapiṭaka · Kathāvatthu · Vol. 37 · Section 691

[691] [S.] Are there two cessations (nirodha)? [P.] Yes. [S.] Are there two cessations of suffering (dukkhanirodha)? [P.] It should not be said thus. … [S.] Are there two cessations of suffering? [P.] Yes. [S.] Are there two truths of cessation (nirodhasacca)? [P.] It should not be said thus. … [S.] Are there two truths of cessation? [P.] Yes. [S.] Are there two truths of suffering (dukkhasacca)? [P.] It should not be said thus. … [S.] Are there two truths of cessation? [P.] Yes. [S.] Are there two truths of origin (samudayasacca)? [P.] It should not be said thus. … [S.] Are there two truths of cessation? [P.] Yes. [S.] Are there two truths of the path (maggasacca)? [P.] It should not be said thus. … [S.] Are there two truths of cessation? [P.] Yes. [S.] Are there two protections (tāṇa)? … two shelters (leṇa), two refuges (saraṇa), two destinations (parāyana), two imperishable states (accuta), two deathless states (amata) … two Nibbānas? [P.] It should not be said thus. … [S.] Are there two Nibbānas? [P.] Yes. [S.] Is there, between the two Nibbānas, highness and lowness, inferiority and superiority, excellence and deficiency, or a boundary, or a division, or a line, or an interval? [P.] It should not be said thus. …

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.