Kathāvatthu (Pāli) (abbreviated Kv, Kvu; transl. "Points of Controversy") is a Buddhist scripture, one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma...

tradition of which Theravada is a part as well as the author of the Kathāvatthu. He is seen as the defender of the true teaching or Dhamma against corruption...

Vibhaṅga (vibhaṅga) Dhātukathā (dhātukathā) Puggalapaññatti (-paññatti) Kathāvatthu (kathā-) Yamaka Paṭṭhāna (paṭṭhāna) The Pāḷi Abhidhamma collection has...

he did not put forth a logico-epistemological system. The Theravada Kathāvatthu contains some rules on debate and reasoning. The first Buddhist thinker...

Central Asia and South-East Asia. Their doctrine is expounded in the Kathavatthu. The word Vibhajyavāda may be parsed into vibhajya, loosely meaning "dividing"...

existence (bhāva), the truth which applies to things. According to the Kathavatthu, tathātā is not an unconditioned or un-constructed (asankhata) phenomenon...

Buddhist council, during the 17th regnal year of Ashoka. Tissa compiles Kathavatthu, a text that reaffirms Theravadin orthodoxy on several points. The North...

Buddhist council when elder Moggaliputta-Tissa is said to have compiled the Kathavatthu, an important work which lays out the Vibhajjavāda doctrinal position...

burden is suffering in the world, Laying the burden down is blissful. The Kathavatthu also mentions that the Pudgalavādins relied on the following statements...

Controversy in India and Tibet, SUNY McDermott, James Paul (1975), "The Kathāvatthu Kamma Debates", Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol. 95, no...