Contents

• Titlepage
• Table of Contents
• Cover
• 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