The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1880 page)
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P’u
(Chin., ‘rough block’). Taoist understanding of the original innocence and simplicity of human nature, like that of raw silk or a newborn child.
Pudgala
(person):
(person):
Pudgalav
dins
dins(Skt.,
pudgala
; P
li,
puggala
). ‘Personalists’, a school of Buddhist philosophy which began 3rd cent. CE, and which posited the existence of a self or soul over and above the five aggregates (
skandhas
). This school, also known as the V
tsiputr
ya, regarded the pudgala or ‘person’ as an entity which continued through each life in the cycle of rebirths, carried along in some manner by the skandhas, but which disappeared when liberation was gained. It was thus a kind of impermanent or temporary soul, unlike the Hindu
tman
which was thought of as eternal.
The doctrine of the pudgala was accepted by no other school and was actively criticized, with the result that it died out in the medieval period. See also
AN
TMAN
.
pudgala
; P
li,puggala
). ‘Personalists’, a school of Buddhist philosophy which began 3rd cent. CE, and which posited the existence of a self or soul over and above the five aggregates (
skandhas
). This school, also known as the V
tsiputrya, regarded the pudgala or ‘person’ as an entity which continued through each life in the cycle of rebirths, carried along in some manner by the skandhas, but which disappeared when liberation was gained. It was thus a kind of impermanent or temporary soul, unlike the Hindutmanwhich was thought of as eternal.
The doctrine of the pudgala was accepted by no other school and was actively criticized, with the result that it died out in the medieval period. See also
AN
TMAN.
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