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The Content of Cultural Continuity in India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

W. Norman Brown
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One of the problems recurring in the Buddhist Pali Texts is the question of what it is that transmigrates. Buddhism accepts as axiomatic the doctrine of rebirth, a process of “renewal of becomings” until the attainment of complete knowledge, whereupon the process terminates. At the same time, the Pali texts are committed to the doctrine that there is no soul. The two doctrines, held simultaneously, presented a difficulty of which the Buddhist monks were well aware. If there is no soul, no Ego, no self, and yet rebirth is a fact, what is reborn?

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , August 1961 , pp. 427 - 434
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961

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References

1 Generally following Warren, H. C., Buddhism in Translations (Cambridge, Mass., 1909), pp. 130–133Google Scholar.

2 Warren, pp. 237–238.

3 Warren, pp. 207–208.