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	'''Sassatavada''' ([[Pali]]) also '''śāśvata-dṛṣṭi''' ([[Sanskrit]]), usually translated "eternalism" is a kind of thinking rejected by the Buddha in the [[nikayas]] (and [[Āgama (Buddhism)\|agamas]]). One example of it is the belief that the individual has an unchanging [[Atman (Hinduism)\|self]]. Views of this kind were held at the Buddha's time by a variety of groups.		'''Sassatavada''' ([[Pali]]) also '''śāśvata-dṛṣṭi''' ([[Sanskrit]]), usually translated "eternalism" is a kind of thinking rejected by the Buddha in the [[nikayas]] (and [[Āgama (Buddhism)\|agamas]]). One example of it is the belief that the individual has an unchanging [[Atman (Hinduism)\|self]]. Views of this kind were held at the Buddha's time by a variety of groups.

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'''Sassatavada''' ([[Pali]]) also '''śāśvata-dṛṣṭi''' ([[Sanskrit]]), usually translated "eternalism" is a kind of thinking rejected by the Buddha in the [[nikayas]] (and [[Āgama (Buddhism)|agamas]]). One example of it is the belief that the individual has an unchanging [[Atman (Hinduism)|self]]. Views of this kind were held at the Buddha's time by a variety of groups.

The Buddha rejected this and the opposite concept of ''ucchedavada'' ([[eternal oblivion|annihilationism]]) on both logical and epistemic grounds. He proposed a [[middle way]] between these extremes, relying not on [[ontology]] but on [[causality]].

Eternalism included the belief that the extinction of things means their latency and the production of things means their manifestation — this violates the Buddha's principle of the middle way.<ref>K. Venkata Ramanan, ''Nagarjuna's Philosophy: As Presented in the Maha-Prajnaparamita-Sastra.'' Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 1993, page 60.</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.zencomp.com/greatwisdom/ebud/ebdha263.htm The Buddhist Critique of Sassatavada and Ucchedavada]

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