Concept

The unanswerable questions

Overview

Questions that Buddha refused to answer

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

Philosophers who discussed The unanswerable questions

• Nagarjuna
• Anekantavada

Related ideas

• Ātman (Hinduism)
• Karma
• Majjhima Nikāya
• Philosophy of self
• Nirvana
• Eternity
• Noble Eightfold Path
• Sanskrit
• Buddhism
• The Buddha
• Pali
• Aggi-Vacchagotta Sutta

Place in the tradition

Part of Buddhist philosophy.

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