Yamaka

Buddhist literature

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In Abhidhamma Pitaka
…to a particular author, (6) Yamaka (“Pairs”), a series of questions on psychological phenomena, each dealt with in two opposite ways, and (7) Patthana (“Activations,” or “Causes”), a complex and voluminous treatment of causality and 23 other kinds of relationships between phenomena, mental or material. Historically one of the most…
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In Indian philosophy: Doctrines and ideas of the Buddhist Tipitaka
…refutation of other Buddhist schools; Yamaka, which deals with pairs of questions; and Patthana, which gives an analysis of relations among the elements.
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