Do Buddhists have emotions?

In this short presentations I ask whether the category ‘emotion’ is useful to understand early Buddhist thought and practice. I conclude that 'emotion' is not helpful to understand early Buddhism in its own terms, because thinking through the lens of emotions leads to distorting concepts like vedanā, altering the contemplations of mindfulness, and more fundamentally it obscures how Buddhist maps of human experience are underpinned by religious notions and goals, how they embody soteriological ethics.