Thus one should define, in a double way, name and form in all phenomena of the three realms…" --Visuddhimagga XVIII.24In this paper, we want to bring together two issues for their mutual illumination: (i) the particular use of that hoary Indian dyad, "nāma-rūpa", literally, "name-and-form by Buddhaghosa, the influential 5 th c Theravāda writer, to organize the categories of the abhidhamma, the...