Manual of Indian Buddhism c3.s2.7

c3.s2.7

Notwithstanding some doubts about the absolute correctness of the Sinhalese accounts, we may hold that the principal Pāli commentaries on canonical works are due to Buddhaghoṣa, as well as the Visuddhimagga², a kind of cyclopaedia of the Buddhist creed. Another work that has been characterized as "a short encyclopaedia of the Buddhist theology and cosmology" is the Sārasaṅgaha³. The commentary on the treatise Kathāvatthu⁴ contains much about the tenets of the various sects.