What are not Early Buddhist Texts (EBTs)?

[josephzizys]

Your a treasure @Javier ! I am working my way through your ontology thread too which is great.

Early Buddhist Ontology

Currently, I’ve been thinking a lot about metaphysics and ontology. Bear with me here. I know it is a common view that the Buddha did not have an ontology to speak of. Some suttas speak of various metaphysical questions that are to remain “unanswered” and other suttas speak of how the “world” is just the realm of the ayatanas, and to speak of anything beyond this is problematic. One could say that because of this, the Buddha either remains totally agnostic about ontological questions which ask …