(1) With respect to the five aggregate factors of an individual being, something findable inside the aggregates that is static, partless, separable from the body and mind, and self-sufficiently knowable. (2) With respect to all validly knowable phenomena, an impossible mode of existence that establishes the existence of a phenomenon by the power of something findable inside that phenomenon.
Tibetan: བདག bdag
Sanskrit: ātman
Pali: atta
J. Hopkins: Self
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