The Questions Of King Milinda: Part I

The Questions Of King Milinda: Part I

Translated by T. W. Rhys Davids


The Milinda Panha is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It is included in the Burmese edition of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism as a book of the Khuddaka Nikaya. The contents of the Milindapanha are: Background History Questions on Distinguishing Characteristics: (Characteristics of Attention and Wisdom, Characteristic of Wisdom, Characteristic of Contact, Characteristic of Feeling, Characteristic of Perception, Characteristic of Volition, Characteristic of Consciousness, Characteristic of Applied Thought, Characteristic of Sustained Thought, etc.) Questions for the Cutting Off of Perplexity: (Transmigration and Rebirth, The Soul, Non-Release From Evil Deeds, Simultaneous Arising in Different Places, Doing Evil Knowingly and Unknowingly, etc.) Questions on Dilemmas: Speaks of several puzzles and these puzzles were distributed in eighty-two dilemmas. A Question Solved By Inference Discusses the Special Qualities of Asceticism Questions on Talk of Similes.