A follower of a non-Buddhist Indian school of philosophy that asserts either an absolutist position of an unchanging static soul (Skt. ātman) of a person or a nihilist position that denies the continuity of a person after death and/or the workings of karmic cause and effect.
Tibetan: མུ་སྟེགས་པ། mu-stegs-pa
Sanskrit: tīrthika
J. Hopkins: Forder
Synonyms: Tirthika
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