Notion of Ditthi in Theravada Buddhism

The notion of ''view'' or ''opinion'' (ditthi) as an obstacle to ''seeing things as they are'' is a central concept in Buddhist thought. This book considers the two ways in which the notion of views are usually understood. Are we to understand right-view as a correction of wrong-views (the opposition understanding) or is the aim of the Buddhist path the overcoming of all views, even right-view (th...