Anattā
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| Translations of Anatta | |
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| English | Not self, nonself |
| Sanskrit | अनात्मन् (IAST: anātman) |
| Chinese | 無我 (Pinyin: wúwǒ) |
| Japanese | 無我 (Rōmaji: muga) |
| Korean | 무아 (RR: mua) |
| Tibetan | བདག་མེད་པ (bdag med) |
| Vietnamese | vô ngã |
| Glossary of Buddhism | |
In Buddhism, the term anattā (Pali: 𑀅𑀦𑀢𑁆𑀢𑀸) or anātman (Sanskrit: अनात्मन्) is the doctrine of "no-self" – that no unchanging, permanent self or essence can be found in any phenomenon.[note 1] While often interpreted as a doctrine denying the existence of a self, anatman is more accurately described as a strategy to attain non-attachment by recognizing everything as impermanent, while staying silent on the ultimate existence of an unchanging essence.[1][2][3] In contrast, dominant schools of Hinduism assert the existence of Ātman as pure awareness or witness-consciousness,[4][5][6][note 2] "reify[ing] consciousness as an eternal self".[7]
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- ^ Wynne 2009, p. 59–63, 76–77.
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- ^ Dalal 2010, p. 38.
- ^ McClelland 2010, p. 34–35.
- ^ Mackenzie 2012.