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   Anatta

   Terms like anatman (not-self) and shunyata (voidness) are at the core of all Buddhist traditions. ... ↑ Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha taught.
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   Buddhism and Hinduism

   Terms like anatman (not-self) and shunyata (voidness) are at the core of all Buddhist traditions. ... ↑ Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught, page 51.
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   Abhisamayalankara

   Sravakas and Pratyekabuddhas, in order to discern the truths of anitya (impermanence), anatman (selflessness), and dukha (suffering), must acquire knowledge of the fundamental constituents of reality (vastu)--namely the skandhas, ayatanas, and dhatus which are the subjects of Abhidharma. ... Tibetan tradition accepts the common Mahayana view that Sakyamuni Buddha (the historical Buddha) taught various kinds of teachings that do not seem to agree--hence the various discrepencies between nikaya Buddhism and the Mahayana scriptures--and following the Sandhinirmocana Sutra, hold that the Buddha taught three grand cycles called "Turnings of the Wheel of Dharma."
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   Romance (love)

   While Buddha taught a philosophy of compassion and love, still in his philosophy of anatman or non-self spiritual appearances are of a piece with the world and essentially empty.
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   Tathagatagarbha doctrine

   Responding to these two mistaken notions, in Section XXVIII of the Lankavatara, Mahamati asks Buddha, "Is not this Tathagata-garbha taught by the Blessed One the same as the ego-substance (atman) taught by the philosophers?" ... Given the doctrine of anatman, is there any difference between the subjective experiences of a robot that acts intelligent and an animal that is intelligent?
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   Reality in Buddhism

   Dzogchen, as the non-dual culmination of the Ancient School (a school with a few million followers out of a few hundred million Buddhists) of Mantrayana, resolves atman and anatman into the Mindstream Doctrine of Tapihritsa. The Buddha Shakyamuni is said to have taught the variously understood and interpreted concept of "not-self" in the Anatta-lakkhana Sutta.
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   Buddhology

   The material body (rūpakāya) of Buddhas is unlimited (anatman) ... It is this transcendent yet immanent Dharmakaya-Buddha which is taught in certain major Mahayana sutras to be immutable and eternal and is intimately linked with Dharma itself.
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   Three marks of existence

   He taught that all concepts of a substantial personal self were incorrect, and formed in the realm of ignorance. ... It is finally revealed (in the last of the Buddha's Mahayana sutras, the Nirvana Sutra) not as the circumscribed "no self", the clinging ego (which is indeed anatta/anatman), but as the ever-enduring, egoless Great Self or Dharmakaya of the Buddha.
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   Skandha

   It is through the five skandhas that impermanence (anicca) is experienced, that suffering (duhkha) arises, and that "non-self" (anatta or anatman) can be realized. ... Likewise, Thanissaro Bhikkhu (2002) underlines: "The [Pāli] canon depicts the Buddha as saying that he taught only two topics: suffering and the end of suffering (SN 22.86).
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    Anatman

    Anatman translates into the English Language as No-Self. ... This is one of the most important philosophical concepts in all of Buddhism, and is recorded as having been one of the primary realizations attained by the Buddha during his enlightenment experience.

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