In a Double Way: Nāmarūpa in Buddhaghosa's Phenomenology

Two issues are brought together here for their mutual illumination: (1) the particular use of that hoary Indian dyad, nāma-rūpa, literally "name-and-form," by Buddhaghosa, the influential fifth-century Theravada writer, to organize the categories of experience, and (2) an interpretation of phenomenology as a methodology.