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Philosophical concept

Not-self

Not-self denies that the changing aggregates contain a permanent, autonomous, fully controllable self.

Works
6
Passages
2,156
Thinkers
1
Traditions
1

Understand uses of the concept

Not-self denies that the changing aggregates contain a permanent, autonomous, fully controllable self.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,156 passages across 6 works, including Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses, Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma, Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: anattā, anatta, not-self, non-soi

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  2. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  3. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 34 passages
  4. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 152 passages
  5. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 1,819 passages
  6. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 73 passages