Self and Non-Self in Early Buddhism

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• List or Sources and AbbreviationsXI
• Introduction1

• Part One: The Existential Self

• • 1. Preliminary Remarks7
    • How to translate the term attā7
    • Has the term attā a mere conventional sense in the Nikāyas?10
    • The Nikayan approach to the term attā17

• • 2. Attā as Man's Highest Value20
    • The self as refuge20
    • The self is best26
    • In love with the self34
    • Look for the self37
    • Paccattaṁ40
    • Ajjhattaṁ43

• • 3. The Self as the Moral Agent49
    • Moral energy of the self50
    • Salvation in general and the self56
    • The chariot and the charioteer57
    • Knowledge of the self63
    • Manifestation of the self67

• • 4. The Self and Moral Evil77
    • The metaphysical self, as such, is above moral good and evil77
    • The moral self as the cause of moral evil80
    • The moral self under the influence of moral shortcomings82
    • The moral self 'wounded and killed' by evil83
    • Asmimāna as the root of all moral evil85

• • 5. Towards Perfection90
    • The self as related to moral good90
    • Self-exertion94
    • Self-control98
    • Purification of the self104

• • 6. The Self and Perfection108
    • Perfection of the self108
    • Self-stability109
    • 'He dwells with a self brahma-become'113
    • Full blossoming of the self118
    • The self and nibbāna122
    • Nibbutatto129

• • 7. The Self as Related to Kamma and Rebirth131
    • The self and kamma131
    • The self and rebirth143

• • 8. A Brief General Assessment of the First Part148

• Part Two: The Metaphysical Self

• • 9. The Doctrine of Anattā can co-exist with the Reality of Attā153

• • 10. The Doctrine of Non-self Taught Through
    
    • the Denial of Positive Terms158
    • This is not my self158
    • He does not regard the khandas, etc., either as the self or the self as qualified by them173
    • Void of the self or belongs to the self183
    • What is not your own186
    • Permanence, happiness, self vs. impermanence, pain, non-self189
    • As alien, not as the self190

• • 11. The Doctrine of the Non-Self Taught Through the Predication of the Negative Term Anattā.195
    • Connection with the preceding chapter196
    • Scope of the' annattā statements'198
    • Intimate relationship between anattā' and dukkha204
    • The awareness of non-self205
    • Anattā proclaimed by means of universal statements208
    • Reasons given to assert that something is annattā222

• • 12. Asmimāna, Sakkāyadiṭṭhi, Sassatavāda and Ucchedavāda227

• • 13. Self and Non-Self After Liberation268
    • Buddha was not a nihilist269
    • Transcendence of the self276
    • Moral transcendence of the self278
    • Metaphysical transcendence of the self280
    • The abyākatā pañhā and the sakkāyaddiṭṭi unanswered294
    • Reasons for keeping the abyākatā pañhā unanswered294

• • 14. Recapitulation301

• Notes306
• Selected Bibliography384
• Glossary of Terms388
• Table of Scriptural Passages Commented or Quoted393
• Index of Names and Subjects401

ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt. आत्मन् Tib. བདག་ Ch. 我,灵魂

ātman - Though it can simply be used as the expression "I" or "me", in Indian thought the notion of self refers to a permanent, unchanging entity, such as that which passes from life to life in the case of people, or the innate essence (svabhāva) of phenomena. Skt. आत्मन् Tib. བདག་ Ch. 我,灵魂