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22 - ‘We Claim That There Is a Person, but We Do Not Say That He Is an Entity’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 June 2021

Michael McGhee
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University of Liverpool
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It is instructive to see the intellectual fate of the Pudgalavadins, who seem to have had serious misgivings about this binary opposition – continua of events over against persisting entities – and claimed, as Bartley puts it, that ‘there was an entity called a person (pudgala) that emerged from the interactions of the five constituents’ (or skandhas) (p. 120). But they seem to have been outclassed dialectically by their opponents, whose version of the dialogue has come down to us via Vasubandhu. Not only were they outclassed but they were also stymied by conceding the metaphysics their intuitions rendered dubious.

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Spirituality for the Godless
Buddhism, Humanism, and Religion
, pp. 169 - 172
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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