School

Kathāvatthu

Overview

one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka; contrasts the orthodox Theravada position on a range of issues to the heterodox views of various interlocutors

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Kathāvatthu

• Buddhaghosa

Related ideas

• Ashoka
• Insight
• Karma
• Sarvastivada
• Knowledge
• Space
• Pali Canon
• Buddhaghosa
• Pratītyasamutpāda
• Theravada
• Intention
• Atthakatha
• Awareness
• Pudgalavada
• Eternalism (philosophy of time)
• Dharma
• Existence
• Moggaliputta-Tissa

Place in the tradition

Part of Buddhist philosophy.

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