Impossible "soul"

(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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