AN EXPLANATION TO THE BUDDHA’S UNANSWERED QUESTIONS

Abstract

According to Buddhism, unanswered questions are relevant to speculative views. The unanswered questions at the time of the Buddha were a big philosophical matter and subsequently, after the Buddha’s passing away, were debated by the different schools of Buddhism. Thes debates have led to disputes in modern critical Buddhist thought. Such speculative views that the Buddha had been asked by his unenlightened disciples were current at the growth of speculative philosophers in the Upaniṣadic Period. Those unanswered questions which are found in the various discourses of the Buddha are similar views of those Upaniṣadic thinkers and philosophers of the time of the Buddha. The reason why the Buddha termed all those questions as speculative is because each and every unanswered questions is based on the ground of atmavāda doctrinal principles of the Vedas.