The Triple Canon in Pali

The Patthana is indeed, deep and profound and so it is really difficult to conveive of it completely on one’s own. But the Buddha provided a method so that, on that basis, there would be no difficulty in grasping the subject. That method is none other than the table of Contents (the Triplets and Couplets) expounded at the beginning of Dhammasangani.

It is extremely difficult for one to become a Supremely Enlightened Buddha. First o f all one must have qualified oneself to receive the prediction from a living Buddha. This, too, is difficult because the following eight conditions have to be satisfied…

A Puggalavadin’s view is that the person is known in thesense of a real and ultimate fact, but he is not known inthe same way as other real and ultimate facts are known.*“ He or she is known in the sense of a real and ultimate fact,and his material quality is also known in the sense of areal and ultimate fact.

Kathavatthu is a Buddhist scripture, one of the seven books in the Theravada Abhidhamma Pitaka.

The Yamaka is a text of the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. It is a text on applied logic and analysis included in the …