ABSTRACT
The most detailed account we have of the ‘Five Points’ is contained in a canonical Pāli text, the Kathāvatthu. Traditionally this work is attributed to Moggaliputta Tissa in the reign of Aśoka, i.e. the latter part of the third century BC. Although some scholars have supported the traditional view, it is in fact clear that it is not a unitary work in the form in which we have it.38
