རྟག་པར་ལྟ་བ། | Glossary of Terms

Eternalism is the view that clings to some eternal, truly existent essence called ‘self,’ based on the experience of a collection of, in fact, transitory phenomena.

A belief that there is some lasting eternal entity, whether a creator god, eternal substance, etc.

The first of two extreme views that keep one deluded with regard to reality. Eternalism is the view that clings to some eternal, truly existent essence called “self,” based on the experience of a collection of, in fact, transitory phenomena.

The wrong view or belief that the self exists in or as one or all of the psycho-physical aggregates (skandhas) or independent from them and that it lives on unchanged and eternally after death; mentioned together with “wrong view of annihilation” (ucchedadṛṣṭi).

The wrong view or belief that the self exists in (or as one or all of) the psycho-physical aggregates (Skt. skandhas), or independent from them, and that it lives on unchanged and eternally after death; mentioned together with the “wrong view of annihilation.”