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བདག | Glossary of Terms
བདག
bdag
ātma
- Term
- Self
- བདག
- bdag
- ātman
Also translated here as “I.”
- Self
- བདག
- bdag
- ātma
It is crucial to understand what is meant by “self,” before one is able to realize the all-important “absence of self.” Before we can discover an absence, we have to know what we are looking for. In Mahāyāna, there is a self of persons and a self of things, both presumed habitually by living beings and hence informative of their perceptions. Were these “selves” to exist as they appear because of our presumption, they should exist as substantial, self-subsistent entities within things, or as the intrinsic realities of things, or as the intrinsic identities of things, all permanent, unrelated and unrelative, etc. The nondiscovery of such “selves” within changing, relative, interdependent persons and things is the realization of ultimate reality, or absence of self.
- “I”
- བདག
- bdag
- ātman
Also translated here as “self.”
- Soul
- བདག
- bdag
- ātman
Also translated often as “self” or “I.”