Tag: Nirvana Sutra
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Does Buddhism Believe in a Soul? The Nirvāṇa Sūtra’s Surprising Answer
If you know one thing about Buddhism, it’s probably this: there is no soul. No permanent self. The teaching is called anattā (Pali) or anātman (Sanskrit), non-self, and it’s the line that separates Buddhism from almost every other religion. Hinduism has the ātman; Christianity has the soul; Buddhism, famously, has neither. What you call “you”…
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What If No One Is Hopeless? | The Awakened State (Part I) #Shorts
The Nirvāṇa Sūtra reverses the early Buddhist map: even the being written off as hopeless is a burned seed that still contains life. Part I of IV — The Maps and the Territory — from The Awakened State: What Buddhist Enlightenment Actually Means by William Altig.
Buddhist Wisdom for the Long Night 