Anatta to Śūnyatā
Author(s): Satyendra Kumar Pandey
Abstract: The long history of Buddhism is a brilliant authoritative witness of gradual trend of change that took place in the dissemination and development of Buddhism. The doctrine of
Anatta (no-soul) is one of such concepts, which in course of time resulted into the concept of
Śūnyatā (emptiness). The concept of
Anatta rejects the then prevalent theory that there exists a permanent soul (atta/ātmā), the essential factor for the existence of a human being, and it transmigrates from one body to other, when the body decays. In course of time this very concept of
anatta developed gradually into the concept of
Śūnyatā, as propounded by Nāgārjuna. From the perusal of the texts, throw light on the this development, it could be marked that from Buddha to Nāgārjuna, it developed gradually in five stages – the views of Buddha, the Sarvāstivāda, the Mahāsāṅghika, the Prajñāpāramitā and Nāgārjuna. To highlight these aspects the present paper, entitled “
Anatta to
Śūnyatā” aims to delineate the concept of
Anatta and its gradual development into
Śūnyatā, adopting the research methodology of literary analysis.
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Satyendra Kumar Pandey. Anatta to Śūnyatā. Int J Multidiscip Trends 2022;4(1):17-20.
