# List of unresolved issues in Commentaries **URL:** \ **Category:** Textual Scholarship\ **Tags:** atthakatha\ **Created:** [October 25, 2024, 10:37pm UTC](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/list-of-unresolved-issues-in-commentaries/1508 "2024-10-25T22:37:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 11
**Author:** ![RobertK](https://classicaltheravada.org/user_avatar/classicaltheravada.org/robertk/32/1498_2.png) [@RobertK](https://classicaltheravada.org/u/RobertK)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2024, 4:30am UTC](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/list-of-unresolved-issues-in-commentaries/1508/11 "2024-10-26T04:30:43Z")
> [@jansen](#): > > Why did Commentaries mention javanas & kalapas and not the other topics? I would like to spark enthusiasm and discussion on the reasons why these topics were introduced and make it clear (if, then) that the Commentaries introduced these topics, not the Buddha, not Mūḷa Abhidhamma, as is the widespread wrong opinion. The Commentaries didn’t introduce chakras because these are wrong ideas with no reality at all. However, I believe the kalapas and javana cittas are real- a big difference. I don’t think anyone who has studied Abhidhamma thinks that kalapas or javanas are explained in the Abhidhamma Pitaka - how could they when these terms are not there. That doesn’t mean it is not helpful that the Commentaries explain additional details about nama and rupa. Knowing about kalapas in details helps us to see these elements as they appear now in daily life. And breaks down the idea of a whole. See more here: > [@Why believe in Kalapas?](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/why-believe-in-kalapas/1132/2): > > The word kalāpa simply means group - hence group of material phenomena in the case of material phenomena, and in the Visuddhimagga XX, 32-43 there are many details about the Octads (i.e. the mininum number of the rupa in one group of kalapas and the various causes for rupa) and enneads. and so forth - just as explained in the Abhidhammattha-sangaha XX32 Cittasamuṭṭhānaṃ nāma tayo arūpino khandhā, "saddanavakaṃ, kāyaviññatti, vacīviññatti, 32.(2) What is originated by consciousness is the t… --- _[View the full topic](https://classicaltheravada.org/t/list-of-unresolved-issues-in-commentaries/1508)._