Points of Controversy

Theravāda Abhidhamma

The seven books of the canonical Theravāda Abhidhamma.

Puggalakathā

Kv 1.1
Of the Existence of a Personal Entity

Brahmacariyakathā

Kv 1.3
Of the Higher Life

Odhisokathā

Kv 1.4
Of Purification Piecemeal

Sabbamatthītikathā

Kv 1.6
Of Everything as persistently existing

Atītakkhandhādikathā

Kv 1.7
Of what does my “Past” Consist?

Ekaccaṁatthītikathā

Kv 1.8
Of Some of the Past and Future as still Existing

Satipaṭṭhānakathā

Kv 1.9
Of Applications in Mindfulness

Hevatthikathā

Kv 1.10
Of Existence in Immutable Modes

Parūpahārakathā

Kv 2.1
Of Conveyance by Another

Aññāṇakathā

Kv 2.2
Of the Knowledge of the Arahant

Kaṅkhākathā

Kv 2.3
Of Doubt in the Arahant

Paravitāraṇakathā

Kv 2.4
Of the Arahant being excelled by Others

Vacībhedakathā

Kv 2.5
Of Articulate Utterance During Ecstasy

Dukkhāhārakathā

Kv 2.6
Of Inducing Insight by Saying “Sorrow!”

Cittaṭṭhitikathā

Kv 2.7
Of the Duration of Consciousness

Kukkuḷakathā

Kv 2.8
Of the World as only a Cinderheap

Anupubbābhisamayakathā

Kv 2.9
Of a Specified Progress in Penetration

Vohārakathā

Kv 2.10
Of a Buddha's Everyday Usage

Ariyantikathā

Kv 3.2
Of the Quality Called Ariyan

Vimuccamānakathā

Kv 3.4
Of Emancipation as a Process

Aṭṭhamakakathā

Kv 3.5
Of the Eighth Man

Aṭṭhamakassaindriyakathā

Kv 3.6
Of the Controlling Powers of the Eighth Man

Dibbacakkhukathā

Kv 3.7
Of the Celestial Eye

Dibbasotakathā

Kv 3.8
Of the Celestial Ear

Yathākammūpagatañāṇakathā

Kv 3.9
Of Insight into Destiny according to Deeds

Saṁvarakathā

Kv 3.10
Of Moral Restraint

Asaññakathā

Kv 3.11
Of Unconscious Life

Nevasaññānāsaññāyatanakathā

Kv 3.12
Of the plane wherein Consciousness neither is nor is not

Gihissaarahātikathā

Kv 4.1
As to whether a Layman may be Arahant

Upapattikathā

Kv 4.2
Of Arahantship as conferred by Rebirth alone

Anāsavakathā

Kv 4.3
Of the Arahant's Common Humanity

Samannāgatakathā

Kv 4.4
Of the Retaining of Distinctive Endowments

Upekkhāsamannāgatakathā

Kv 4.5
Of the Arahant's Indifference in Sense-Cognition

Bodhiyābuddhotikathā

Kv 4.6
Of becoming “The Enlightened” (Buddha) through Enlightenment (bodhi)

Lakkhaṇakathā

Kv 4.7
Of One gifted with the Marks

Niyāmokkantikathā

Kv 4.8
Of entering on the Path of Assurance

Aparāpisamannāgatakathā

Kv 4.9
More about Endowment

Sabbasaṁyojanappahānakathā

Kv 4.10
Of putting off the Fetters

Asekhañāṇakathā

Kv 5.2
Of the Knowledge of an Adept

Viparītakathā

Kv 5.3
Of Perverted Perception or Hallucination (in Jhāna)

Paṭisambhidākathā

Kv 5.5
Of Analytic Insight

Sammutiñāṇakathā

Kv 5.6
Of Popular Knowledge

Cittārammaṇakathā

Kv 5.7
Of the Mental Object in Telepathy

Anāgatañāṇakathā

Kv 5.8
Of Insight into the Future

Paṭuppannañāṇakathā

Kv 5.9
Of Knowledge of the Present

Phalañāṇakathā

Kv 5.10
Of Knowing Others' Fruition

Niyāmakathā

Kv 6.1
Of Assurance of salvation

Paṭiccasamuppādakathā

Kv 6.2
Of Causal Genesis

Āruppakathā

Kv 6.4
Of the Four Immaterial Spheres of Life and Thought

Nirodhasamāpattikathā

Kv 6.5
Of the attaining to Cessation

Ākāsosanidassanotikathā

Kv 6.7
Of Space as visible

Pathavīdhātusanidassanātiādikathā

Kv 6.8
Of the Four Elements as Visible

Cakkhundriyaṁsanidassanantiādikathā

Kv 6.9
Of the Five Senses as Visible

Kāyakammaṁsanidassanantikathā

Kv 6.10
Of Action as Visible

Saṅgahitakathā

Kv 7.1
Of the Classification of things

Sampayuttakathā

Kv 7.2
Of Mental States as mutually connected

Cetasikakathā

Kv 7.3
Of Mental Properties

Paribhogamayapuññakathā

Kv 7.5
Of Utility

Itodinnakathā

Kv 7.6
Of the Effect of Gifts given in this Life

Pathavīkammavipākotikathā

Kv 7.7
Of the Earth and Karma

Jarāmaraṇaṁvipākotikathā

Kv 7.8
Of Decay and Death and Karma

Ariyadhammavipākakathā

Kv 7.9
Of the Ariyan Mind and its Results

Vipākovipākadhammadhammotikathā

Kv 7.10
Of Results as again causing Results

Antarābhavakathā

Kv 8.2
Of an Intermediate State

Kāmaguṇakathā

Kv 8.3
Of the Pleasures of Sense

Rūpadhātukathā

Kv 8.5
Of the Rūpa-Element

Arūpadhātukathā

Kv 8.6
Of the Arūpa-Element

Rūpadhātuyāāyatanakathā

Kv 8.7
Of the Senses in the Rūpa-Sphere

Arūperūpakathā

Kv 8.8
Of Matter in Arūpa-Sphere

Rūpaṁkammantikathā

Kv 8.9
Of Matter as ethically Good or Bad

Jīvitindriyakathā

Kv 8.10
Of Vital Power

Kammahetukathā

Kv 8.11
Of a Result of Karma

Ānisaṁsadassāvīkathā

Kv 9.1
Of Release through seeing the Good

Amatārammaṇakathā

Kv 9.2
Of the Ambrosial as an Object by which we are bound

Rūpaṁsārammaṇantikathā

Kv 9.3
Of Matter as Subjective

Anusayāanārammaṇātikathā

Kv 9.4
Of Bias as without Mental Object

Ñāṇaṁanārammaṇantikathā

Kv 9.5
Of Insight as without Mental Object

Atītānāgatārammaṇakathā

Kv 9.6
Of Past Ideas

Vitakkānupatitakathā

Kv 9.7
Of Initial Application of Mind and its Field of Operation

Vitakkavipphārasaddakathā

Kv 9.8
Of Sound as purely Mental

Nayathācittassavācātikathā

Kv 9.9
Of Speech conforming to Thought

Nayathācittassakāyakammantikathā

Kv 9.10
Of Action conforming to Thought

Atītānāgatasamannāgatakathā

Kv 9.11
Of Past, Future, and Present

Rūpaṁmaggotikathā

Kv 10.2
Of the Path and Bodily Form

Pañcaviññāṇasamaṅgissamaggakathā

Kv 10.3
Of Path-Culture and the Senses

Pañcaviññāṇākusalāpiakusalāpītikathā

Kv 10.4
Of Sensations as Moral and Immoral

Sābhogātikathā

Kv 10.5
Of Sensations and Ideation

Dvīhisīlehikathā

Kv 10.6
Of Two Codes of Morals

Sīlaṁacetasikantikathā

Kv 10.7
Of Virtue or Morality as Automatic

Sīlaṁnacittānuparivattītikathā

Kv 10.8
Of Virtue as conforming to Thought

Samādānahetukathā

Kv 10.9
Of Growth through Observance

Viññattisīlantikathā

Kv 10.10
Are Acts of Intimation Virtue?

Aviññattidussilyantikathā

Kv 10.11
Of Non-Intimation as Immoral

Tissopianusayakathā

Kv 11.1
Of Three Facts about Latent Bias

Ñāṇaṁcittavippayuttantikathā

Kv 11.3
Of Insight and Ordinary Consciousness

Idaṁdukkhantikathā

Kv 11.4
Of the Utterance, “This is Pain and Sorrow!”

Iddhibalakathā

Kv 11.5
Of the Force of the Magic Gift (Iddhi)

Dhammaṭṭhitatākathā

Kv 11.7
Of the Causality of Things

Saṁvarokammantikathā

Kv 12.1
Of Self-Restraint

Saddovipākotikathā

Kv 12.3
Of Sound as Result of Karma

Saḷāyatanakathā

Kv 12.4
Of the Sense-Organs

Sattakkhattuparamakathā

Kv 12.5
Of the Seven Rebirths'-Limit

Kolaṁkolakathā

Kv 12.6
Sequel to the Foregoing

Ekabījīkathā

Kv 12.7
Sequel to the Foregoing

Sattamabhavikakathā

Kv 12.10
Of Him who has reached the Seventh Rebirth

Kappaṭṭhakathā

Kv 13.1
Of Age-Long Penalty

Kusalapaṭilābhakathā

Kv 13.2
Of a Doomed Man's Morality

Anantarāpayuttakathā

Kv 13.3
Of Abettors of Cardinal Crimes

Niyatassaniyāmakathā

Kv 13.4
Of One whose Salvation is Morally Certain (niyata)

Sammukhībhūtakathā

Kv 13.6
Of Captivity and Release

Samāpannoassādetikathā

Kv 13.7
Of Jhāna as Enjoyment

Asātarāgakathā

Kv 13.8
Of Lust for the Unpleasant

Dhammataṇhāabyākatātikathā

Kv 13.9
Of the Unmorality of a Natural Desire for Objects of the Mind

Dhammataṇhānadukkhasamudayotikathā

Kv 13.10
Of Desire for Ideas and the Cause of Ill

Kusalākusalapaṭisandahanakathā

Kv 14.1
Of the Mutual Consecutiveness of Good and Bad

Saḷāyatanuppattikathā

Kv 14.2
Of the Development of Sense-Organs

Anantarapaccayakathā

Kv 14.3
Of Immediate Contiguity in Sense

Ariyarūpakathā

Kv 14.4
Of the Outward Life of an Ariyan

Aññoanusayotikathā

Kv 14.5
Of Latent Bias as Something Apart

Pariyuṭṭhānaṁcittavippayuttantikathā

Kv 14.6
Of Unconscious Outbursts of Corruption

Pariyāpannakathā

Kv 14.7
Of Desire as inherent in Heavenly Things

Abyākatakathā

Kv 14.8
Of the Unmoral and the Unrevealed

Apariyāpannakathā

Kv 14.9
Of the Unincluded

Paccayatākathā

Kv 15.1
Of Correlation as specifically fixed

Aññamaññapaccayakathā

Kv 15.2
Of Reciprocal Correlation

Khaṇalayamuhuttakathā

Kv 15.4
Of Instants, Moments, Seconds of Time

Āsavakathā

Kv 15.5
Of the Intoxicants (Āsavas)

Jarāmaraṇakathā

Kv 15.6
Of Decay and Death

Dutiyasaññāvedayitakathā

Kv 15.8
The Same (continued)

Tatiyasaññāvedayitakathā

Kv 15.9
Of Trance (iii.)

Asaññasattupikakathā

Kv 15.10
Of Trance as a Means of reaching the Unconscious Sphere

Kammūpacayakathā

Kv 15.11
Of Karma and its Accumulation

Paggahakathā

Kv 16.2
Of Assisting Another's Mind

Sukhānuppadānakathā

Kv 16.3
Of making Another Happy according to his Deserts

Adhigayhamanasikārakathā

Kv 16.4
Of Attending to All at Once

Rūpaṁhetūtikathā

Kv 16.5
Of Matter as a Moral Condition (hetu)

Rūpaṁsahetukantikathā

Kv 16.6
Matter and Concomitant Moral Conditions

Rūpaṁkusalākusalantikathā

Kv 16.7
Of Matter as Morally Good or Bad

Rūpaṁvipākotikathā

Kv 16.8
Of Matter as Result

Rūpaṁrūpāvacarārūpāvacarantikathā

Kv 16.9
Of Matter as belonging to the Material and the Immaterial Heavens

Rūpārūpadhātupariyāpannakathā

Kv 16.10
Of Desire for Life in the Higher Heavens

Atthiarahatopuññūpacayotikathā

Kv 17.1
Of an Arahant having Accumulating Merit

Natthiarahatoakālamaccūtikathā

Kv 17.2
Of Arahants and Untimely Death

Sabbamidaṁkammatotikathā

Kv 17.3
Of Everything as due to Karma

Indriyabaddhakathā

Kv 17.4
Of Ill (Dukkha) and Sentient Organisms

Ṭhapetvāariyamaggantikathā

Kv 17.5
Of “save only the Ariyan Path”

Navattabbaṁsaṁghodakkhiṇaṁpaṭiggaṇhātikathā

Kv 17.6
Of the Order and the Accepting of Gifts

Navattabbaṁsaṁghodakkhiṇaṁvisodhetītikathā

Kv 17.7
Of the Order and the Purifying of Gifts

Navattabbaṁsaṁghobhuñjatītikathā

Kv 17.8
Of the Order and Daily Life

Navattabbaṁsaṁghassadinnaṁmahapphalantikathā

Kv 17.9
Of the Order and the Fruit of Giving

Navattabbaṁbuddhassadinnaṁmahapphalantikathā

Kv 17.10
Of the Buddha and the Fruit of Giving

Dakkhiṇāvisuddhikathā

Kv 17.11
Of the Sanctification of the Gift

Manussalokakathā

Kv 18.1
Of the Buddha and this World

Dhammadesanākathā

Kv 18.2
Of how the Norm was taught

Karuṇākathā

Kv 18.3
Of the Buddha and Pity

Gandhajātikathā

Kv 18.4
Of the Buddha and Fragrant Things

Ekamaggakathā

Kv 18.5
Of a One and Only Path

Jhānasaṅkantikathā

Kv 18.6
Of the Transition from One Jhāna to Another

Jhānantarikakathā

Kv 18.7
Of Jhāna and its Intervals

Saddaṁsuṇātītikathā

Kv 18.8
Of Hearing in Jhāna

Cakkhunārūpaṁpassatītikathā

Kv 18.9
Of the Eye and Seeing

Kilesajahanakathā

Kv 19.1
Of getting rid of Corruption

Sāmaññaphalakathā

Kv 19.3
Of the Fruits of Life in Religion

Kusalakathā

Kv 19.6
Of Nibbāna as Morally Good

Accantaniyāmakathā

Kv 19.7
Of Assurance which is not Final

Indriyakathā

Kv 19.8
Of the Moral Controlling Powers

Asañciccakathā

Kv 20.1
Of Unintentional Crime

Nirayapālakathā

Kv 20.3
Of the Guards of Purgatory

Tiracchānakathā

Kv 20.4
Of Animals in Heaven

Avivittakathā

Kv 21.2
Of Experience as Inseparable from Personality

Saṁyojanakathā

Kv 21.3
Of Certain Fetters

Iddhikathā

Kv 21.4
Of Supernormal Potency (iddhi)

Sabbadisākathā

Kv 21.6
Of All-Pervading Power

Parinibbānakathā

Kv 22.1
Of the Completion of Life

Kusalacittakathā

Kv 22.2
Of Moral Consciousness

Āneñjakathā

Kv 22.3
Of Imperturbable (Fourth Jhāna) Consciousness

Dhammābhisamayakathā

Kv 22.4
Of Penetrating the Truth

Tissopikathā

Kv 22.5
Three Other Arguments

Āsevanapaccayakathā

Kv 22.7
Of Correlation by Repetition

Khaṇikakathā

Kv 22.8
Of Momentary Duration

Ekādhippāyakathā

Kv 23.1
Of United Resolve

Arahantavaṇṇakathā

Kv 23.2
Of Bogus Arahants

Issariyakāmakārikādikathā

Kv 23.3
Of Self-governed Destiny

Patirūpakathā

Kv 23.4
Of Counterfeit States of Consciousness

Aparinipphannakathā

Kv 23.5
Of the Undetermined