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In Buddhism, anattā (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit) refers to the notion of "not-self". One scholar describes it as "meaning non-selfhood, the absence of limiting self-identity in people and things." In the Pali suttas and the related āgamas (referred to collectively below as the nikayas), the agglomeration of constantly changing physical and mental constituents ("skandhas") comprising a human being... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Buddhism Anatta (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit) refers to the notion of "not-self".

Anatta In Buddhism, anatta (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit) refers to the notion of "not-self".

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Three marks of existence Some Buddhist traditions assert that Anatta pervades everything, and is not limited to personality, or soul.

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Pratītyasamutpāda Therefore Nāgārjuna explains that the anatta (or emptiness) of causality is demonstrated by the interdependence of cause and effect, and likewise that the interdependence (pratītya-samutpāda) of causality itself is demonstrated by its anatta.

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    Anatta

    In Buddhism, anatta (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit) refers to the notion of "not-self". One scholar describes it as "meaning non-selfhood, the absence of limiting self-identity in people and things."
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    Three marks of existence

    Some Buddhist traditions assert that Anatta pervades everything, and is not limited to personality, or soul.
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    Negative theology

    Since this kind of anatta does not negate the Soul as such, but rather, ensnares it more deeply into the ego's attachment to desire, the root of all suffering.
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    Anattalakkhana Sutta

    Three marks of existence: impermanence (anicca), suffering (dukkha) and non-self (anatta).
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    Self-denial

    Anatta, the Buddhist concept of "no self"
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    Soul

    They add that understanding of anatta (or "not-self or no soul") provides an accurate description of the human condition, and that this understanding allows "us" to go beyond "our" mundane desires.
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    Lynn de Silva

    Tissa de Alwis, in his Th.D. thesis studying the works of Lynn de Silva, argues that "de Silva's attempt to harmonise Rebirth, Purgatory, and an intermediate state, which is a kind of a continuum in which one passes from a near state of annihilation to the closest union with God, is inconsistent with the radical picture of Biblical anatta"; furthermore, de Alwis states that de Silva "fails to define lostness in the final sense and slides into an unrestricted universalism".
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    Buddhism

    In the Nikayas, anatta is not meant as a metaphysical assertion, but as an approach for gaining release from suffering.
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    Buddhist philosophy

    Hume's Bundle theory is a very similar concept to anatta.
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    Pratītyasamutpāda

    Because all things are thus conditioned and transient (anicca), they have no real independent identity (anatta) and thus do not truly exist, though to ordinary minds this appears to be the case.

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