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The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism
...ātman . ( P. attan ; T. bdag ; C. wo ; J. ga ; K. a 我 ). In Sanskrit, “self” or “I,” with a similar range of meanings as the terms possess in English, but used especially to refer to a perduring substratum of being that is the agent of actions, the possessor of mind and body ( nāmarūpa ), and that passes from lifetime to lifetime. The misconception that there is an “I” (ātman), a perduring soul that exists in reality ( satkāyadṛṣṭi ), and a “mine” (ātmīya), viz., things that belong to me, injects a “point of view” into all of one’s...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase & Fable (19 ed.)
... (Sanskrit ātman , ‘breath’) In Buddhist philosophy the personal soul or self, the thinking principle as it manifests itself in consciousness. In the upanishads the Atman is regarded as the Universal Soul, the great Self or Person that dwells in the entire created...
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The Oxford Companion to World Mythology
... In Advaita Vedanta and other branches of Hinduism , Brahman is the absolute that is transcendent—nowhere— but immanent—everywhere—as the self or Atman within all things. In the Upanishads , Brahman is the ultimate whole while Atman is the individual soul that can merge with Brahman in mystical oneness, a state of ultimate consciousness or...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...in every form of life, not just in humans. Ātman is therefore necessarily identical with Brahman . In Buddhism, this idea of ātman was profoundly contradicted: see ANĀTMAN (= anatta ). For Sikhs, the immortal ātman is the means of relation to God—indeed, the union (for those who attain it) is so close that it comes close at times to identity: ‘God abides in the ātman, and the ātman abides in God’ ( Ādi Granth 1153...
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A Dictionary of Asian Mythology
... In Advaita Vedānta ( see Advaita Vedānta ) and other branches of Hinduism ( see Hinduism ), Brahman ( see Brahman ) is the absolute that is transcendent—nowhere—but imminent—everywhere—as the Self or Ātman within all things. In the Upaniṣads ( see Upaniṣads ) Brahman is the ultimate whole, while Ātman is the individual soul that can merge with Brahman in mystical oneness, a state of ultimate consciousness or...
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A Dictionary of Hinduism
... (‘ self ’) A term that can be used either as a reflexive pronoun (‘myself’, ‘yourself’, ‘itself’, etc.), or as a noun meaning ‘the self’ (sometimes translated as ‘soul’). In the early Upaniṣads ‘ātman’ is used in a wide variety of ways, perhaps most frequently to designate the living, breathing body; it is also sometimes equated with ‘ prāṇa ’ (‘breath’, ‘life-force’). The understanding of ātman as the eternal, unchanging essence of the person developed out of an increasing concern in Brahmanical literature to establish the nature of the ‘real’ (what...
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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
... In Buddhism the self or soul, conceived of as lying behind the empirical self, and in Hindu thought an eternal unity, identified with brahman . The Buddhist doctrine of anatman ( anatta ) denies the existence of the atman , holding that there is no ongoing owner of the fleeting perceptions and attributes that make up our lives. Although this doctrine is often applauded as a precursor of the bundle theory of the mind or self , the matter is complex, for Buddhism makes a distinction between the surface self, or false self, and the true self that...
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A Dictionary of Buddhism
... (Skt., self, soul). In a philosophical context, the concept of an independent, unchanging, and eternal identity at the core of individuals and entities. Normally the existence of such a self is denied in Buddhism ( see anātman ) although a minority of modern scholars have claimed that the Buddha merely denied a lower ego-self. Additionally, some later Mahāyāna texts, such as the Nirvāṇa Sūtra , speak of a transcendent Buddha-nature as the true...
Ayam Ātman Brahman Reference library
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...Ātman Brahman (Skt., ‘This Self is Brahman’: Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 4. 4. 5) one of the Mahāvākyas in Hinduism, the realization that ātman is Brahman...
atman noun Reference library
The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English
... noun L18 Sanskrit ( ātman ). Hindu Philosophy The self as the subject of individual consciousness, the soul; the supreme personal principle of life in the...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... in Hindu philosophy, the spiritual life principle of the universe, especially when regarded as immanent in the real self of the individual. Various strands in Hindu thought differ in the way they regard the relationship (or identity) of the individual atman or ‘self’ and the universal Atman. The word comes from Sanskrit ātman , literally ‘essence,...
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • Alabaman , Amman, Ammon, Drammen, gammon, Mammon, salmon • Bradman , Caedmon, madman, madmen • flagman , flagmen • trackman , trackmen • hangman , hangmen • chapman , chapmen • cragsman , cragsmen • cracksman , cracksmen, Flaxman • batsman , batsmen • batman , batmen • Tasman • clansman , clansmen, Klansman, Klansmen, landsman, landsmen • backgammon • barman , barmen, Brahman, Carman, Carmen, shaman, Sharman, Tutankhamen • craftsman , craftsmen, draftsman, draftsmen, draughtsman, draughtsmen, raftsman, raftsmen • marksman ,...
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