Commentaries on whether "sabbe dhammā anattā" refers to Nibbana

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Note: This is one of the first Dhamma essays I wrote, in 1999. I submitted it to the Eastern Horizon, but they rejected it. Anyway, I haven’t revised it, so here it is in its original glory. ‘All sankharas are impermanent… all sankharas are suffering… all dhammas are not-self.’ These succinct phrases describing the three characteristics of reality are a well-known summary of the Buddha’s teaching. They are profound, radical, even devastating in their philosophical implications. But, t…