84000 Glossary of Terms

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མཐའ་གཉིས། | Glossary of Terms

  • མཐའ་གཉིས།

  • mtha’ gnyis
  • antadvaya
  • śāśvatocchedāntadvaya
  • Term
Publications: 3
  • two extremes
  • མཐའ་གཉིས།
  • mtha’ gnyis
  • antadvaya
  • śāśvatocchedāntadvaya
Definition in this text:

The two views of (1) eternalism (śāśvatānta), the belief in a permanent, causeless creator and/or the belief in an independent, permanent, singular self; and (2) nihilism (ucchedānta), the belief that things ultimately do not exist and/or the denial of the law of cause and effect or of past and future lives.

  • two extremes
  • མཐའ་གཉིས།
  • mtha’ gnyis
  • antadvaya
Definition in this text:

The extreme of permanence (of a self through many lives) and the extreme of cutting off (i.e., the cessation of consciousness after one life).

  • two extremes
  • མཐའ་གཉིས།
  • mtha’ gnyis
  • antadvaya
Definition in this text:

The two views of (1) eternalism (nityānta), the belief in a permanent, causeless creator and/or the belief in an independent, permanent, singular self; and (2) nihilism (ucchedānta), the belief that things ultimately do not exist and/or the denial of the law of cause and effect or of past and future lives.