A Survey of Paramattha Dhammas
  • Introduction
  • Book info
  • Preface
  • Part I General Introduction
    • The Scriptures and Their Commentaries
    • The Buddha
    • Exposition of Paramattha Dhammas I (Citta and Cetasikas)
    • Exposition of Paramattha Dhammas II (Rūpa)
    • Exposition of Paramattha Dhammas III (Nibbāna)
    • Different Aspects of the Four Paramattha Dhammas
  • Part II Citta
    • General Introduction
    • Citta Knows an Object
    • A Process of Citta
    • Functions of Citta
    • The Duration of Different Processes
    • The Nature of Javana-Citta
    • The Ephemeral Experience of Objects
    • The Cycle of Birth and Death
    • The Nature of Vipāka
    • Citta and Cetasika
    • Cittas of the Sense-Sphere
    • Planes of Existence
    • Feelings
    • Associated Dhammas
    • Roots
    • Sobhana and Asobhana
    • The World
    • The Variegated Nature of Citta
  • Part III Concepts
    • Concepts (I)
    • Concepts (II)
    • Concepts (III)
  • Part IV The Development of Samatha
    • Development of Samatha
  • Part V The Development of Insight
    • The Factors Leading to Enlightenment
    • The Stages of Vipassanā
    • Different Kinds of Purity
    • The Three Kinds of Full Understanding
    • The Three Attainments
  • Part VI Dialogue on Vipassana
    • The Natural Way of Development
    • The Characteristic of Dukkha
    • The Meaning of Anattā
  • Appendices
    • Appendix I: Citta
    • Appendix II: Cetasika
    • Appendix III: Rūpa
    • Questions With Regard to the Appendices
    • Footnotes
  • Pali Glossary
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  1. Appendices

Questions With Regard to the Appendices

  1. Is every citta that is not accompanied by the hetus of alobha,

    adosa and amoha, akusala citta?

  2. In which way are asobhana citta and akusala citta different?

  3. How many asobhana cittas are there? Which are they?

  4. What type of citta performs the function of determining,

    votthapana?

  5. Of which jāti is the five-sense-door adverting-consciousness,

    pañca-dvārāvajjana-citta?

  6. When sound impinges on the earsense, what is the first citta which

    experiences that sound?

  7. Which type of citta precedes the hasituppāda citta

    (smile-producing citta of the arahat)?

  8. Is the mind-door adverting-consciousness, mano-dvārāvajjana-citta,

    the mind-door?

  9. How many functions has the mano-dvārāvajjana-citta? In how many

    doorway processes does it arise? Which objects does it experience?

  10. Which paramattha dhamma is hetu, root?

  11. Which khandha is hetu?

  12. Is nibbāna hetu or na-hetu (not root)? Is it ahetuka or sahetuka?

  13. What are the dhammas that are na-hetu and not saṅkhārakkhandha?

  14. How many hetus are saṅkhārakkhandha?

  15. The paramattha dhammas that are hetus are included in which

    khandha?

  16. Is lokuttara citta asaṅkhata dhamma, unconditioned dhamma?

  17. Kusala dhamma is included in which khandha?

  18. Avyākata dhamma, indeterminate dhamma (neither kusala nor

    akusala) is included in which khandha?

  19. Is there a khandha that is not avyākata dhamma?

  20. Is there avyākata dhamma that is not khandha?

  21. Is there kusala dhamma that is not khandha?

  22. Which jāti is the akusala citta arising in the arūpa-brahma

    plane?

  23. Of which plane, bhūmi, is vedanā cetasika?

  24. Is nibbāna feeling? Explain your answer.

  25. Which cetasikas are not accompanied by vedanā cetasika?

  26. Of which plane of citta is there only one jāti?

  27. Of which plane of citta are there two jātis?

  28. Of which plane of citta are there 3 jātis?

  29. Does the rūpa originated by moha-mūla-citta (cittajarūpa ) arise

    because of hetu-paccaya, root-condition?

  30. Is moha cetasika arising with moha-mūla-citta sahetuka,

    accompanied by hetu?

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