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soul

TECHNICAL TERM DETAILS (English)

Term soul
Tibetan bdag
Sanskrit atman
Pali
Definition According to non-Buddhist Indian tenet systems, something findable, either with or without being a conscious phenomenon, inside the body of a person, and which is static, a partless monad, separable from the body, and self-sufficiently knowable.

TRANSLATIONS

German Seele
French âme impossible
Jeffrey Hopkins En, Ti... self; I [can be used to refer to oneself]; nature; entity
Russian душа
Vietnamese linh hồn, ngã, bản ngã