# Not-self

- Id: `not_self`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/not-self/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `696fb845cec8e6bbcdc021d688993742ef780e43cc7b582e9d0b0177c4cfdc5c`

## Summary

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

## Overview

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.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:buddha.samyutta_nikaya:sn22.68",
    "passage:buddha.sutta_nipata:snp3.12",
    "passage:buddha.majjhima_nikaya:mn74"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "anattā",
    "anatta",
    "not-self",
    "non-soi"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 6,
    "passages": 2156,
    "thinkers": 1,
    "traditions": 1
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "buddhism",
        "name": "Buddhism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/buddhism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "buddha.anguttara_nikaya",
        "title": "Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/anguttara-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.dhammapada",
        "title": "Dhammapada: Verses on the Dhamma",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/dhammapada/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.digha_nikaya",
        "title": "Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/digha-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.majjhima_nikaya",
        "title": "Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/majjhima-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.samyutta_nikaya",
        "title": "Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected Discourses",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/samyutta-nikaya/"
    },
    {
        "id": "buddha.sutta_nipata",
        "title": "Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in Verse",
        "author": "Siddhartha Gautama / Buddha",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/buddha/sutta-nipata/"
    }
]
```