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Please note: PTS members must order directly from the PTS. This translation of Kathavatthu by S. Z. Aung and Mrs. C. A. F. Rhys Davids, was originally published in 1915. It is a scholarly critical edition that provides notes, indexes, diagrams and other aids to understanding the reasons and order of secessions of the myriad schools of Buddhism. Mrs. Rhys Davids' prefatory notes in this translation are a very useful introduction and guide to this fifth book of the Abhidhamma. There are alternate listings of the points of controversy discussed in the Kathavatthu in the Table of Contents of the translation according to: Canonical Order-Grouped under Subjects of Discourse-Grouped According to the Dissentient Schools. There are diagrams of the secessions of various schools of Buddhism according to three different sources. Indexes: I. Quotations from the Canon II. Subjects III. Pali Words Discussed The PTS Pali edition is Kathavatthu
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- PublisherWisdom Publications (MA)
- ISBN 10 0860130029
- ISBN 13 9780860130024
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Points of controversy, or, Subjects of discourse : being a translation of the Katha-vatthu from the Abhidhamma-pitaka (Pali Text Society translation series, no. 5.)
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Oxford, The Pali Text Society, 1993
ISBN 10: 0860130029
ISBN 13: 9780860130024
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Hardcover. Condition: New. lvi, 416 pages : diagrams (1 folded) ; 23 cm. cloth. Translation of Kathavatthu. The fifth book of the Abhidhamma-pitaka is the only canonical text attributed to an author and given a composition date by the tradition. It consists of refutations of disputed doctrinal propositions. CONTENTS: The points of controversy according to the cononical order -- The points of controversy grouped under subjects of discourse -- The points of controversy grouped according to the dissentient schools -- Prefatory noted by C. A. F. Rhys Davids -- Some corrigenda -- The commentator's introduction -- Points of controversy. Seller Inventory # PTS140
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