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Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Titlepage
  • Copyright
  • Abbreviations
  • Foreword
  • Skill in Questions
  • Chapter 1: The Kamma of Teaching
    • Readings
      • Skill in Questions
      • Skill in Answers
      • The Buddha’s Rhetoric
  • Chapter 2: The Bodhisatta’s Quest
    • Readings
  • Chapter 3: Categorical Answers
    • Readings
      • Categorical Teachings
      • Appropriate Attention
      • Skillful & Unskillful Actions
      • The Four Noble Truths
      • Dependent Co-arising
      • Recommended Questions
      • Views & Awakening
      • Papañca
  • Chapter 4: Analytical Answers
    • Readings
      • On Judging People
      • Judging Ways of Life
      • Judging Practices
      • Kamma & Feeling
      • On the Buddha as Teacher
  • Chapter 5: Cross-questioning: I
    • Readings
      • Establishing Orthodoxy
      • Cross-Questioning in the Process of Learning
        • Invitations to cross-questioning
        • The Buddha anticipates cross-questioning of his teaching by faultfinders
        • Ven. Sāriputta anticipates cross-questioning of the teaching by sincere, intelligent people
        • Awakening through cross-questioning the speaker
        • The Buddha’s final invitation to cross-question him
      • The Buddha Questions Other Sectarians
      • Clarifying the Question
      • Extracting Definitions
      • Hypotheticals: on the Buddha as Teacher
      • Hypotheticals: Kings, Princes, & Generals
      • Hypotheticals: Brahmans
      • Hypotheticals: Kamma
      • Hypotheticals: Understanding Pleasure & Pain
      • People Worth Talking to (& Not)
      • Debates
  • Chapter 6: Cross-questioning: II
    • Readings
  • Chapter 7: Questions Put Aside: I
    • Readings
      • Livelihood
      • Other Teachers
  • Chapter 8: Questions Put Aside: II
    • Readings
      • Agnosticism
      • Inconceivables: Kamma & the World
      • The Buddha’s Silence
      • Questions of Inappropriate Attention
      • Dependent Co-arising: Extremes Avoided
      • Dependent Co-arising: Invalid Questions
      • The Ten Undeclared Issues
      • View-standpoints from DN 1
      • The Tetralemma
      • The Tetralemma Declared Meaningless
      • Different Responses to Similar Questions
  • Chapter 9: A Path of Questions
  • Appendix 1: Buddhaghosa on the four categories of questions
  • Appendix 2: Mnemonic Questions
  • Appendix 3: Eternalism & Annihilationism
  • Appendix 4: On the meaning of ‘tathāgata’ in the tetralemma
  • Glossary

Copyright

copyright 2010 Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported. To see a copy of this license visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/. “Commercial” shall mean any sale, whether for commercial or non-profit purposes or entities.

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Metta Forest Monastery

Valley Center, CA 92082-1409

U.S.A.

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