IGNOU MPY 1 2017 2018 - Briefly explain anatmavada (no-soul theory).

Question

Briefly explain anatmavada (no-soul theory).

12 Jan 2018

Answer :

Word Count : 315

Anatmavada (Sanskrit—the doctrine that the atman or “I” does not exist; Pali—anatta)—in Buddhism the view that there is no substantial soul or enduring “I” as the ground of man’s psychological acts.

The concept of anatman did not appear in the teachings of the Buddha. He regarded the non-phenomenal soul as an absolute mystery. Nagasena in his commentaries on Buddha’s teaching explained that the human “I” is an uninterrupted train of ideas and states without an existing subject who would experience them (atman), and that individual immortality is a groundless abstraction. All the arising and transitory factors of existence

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