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The 29 pages that link to Anattā, each with the reason it gives.

• KarmaCompared with: Buddhist accounts explain karmic continuity without an enduring self.

• NirvanaRelated: It raises the question of liberation when no enduring self travels through rebirth.

• Gautama BuddhaRelated: This teaching challenges the belief in a lasting self that binds beings to suffering.

• Dependent originationRelated: The absence of an independent self follows from examining persons as conditioned processes.

• SamsaraRelated: It explains how Buddhist rebirth can occur without an enduring soul passing between lives.

• VipassanaBroader topic: Vipassana examines sensations and thoughts without treating them as a lasting self.

• AtmanCompared with: It directly rejects the enduring self affirmed by many accounts of Atman.

• Karma in BuddhismRelated: It rules out an enduring soul as the bearer of karmic results.

• Buddhist philosophyRelated: It challenges theories of personal identity while preserving the analysis of lived experience.

• ReincarnationCompared with: It challenges the idea that an unchanging soul must pass between bodies.

• Merit (Buddhism)Related: The doctrine complicates the idea that merit belongs to an enduring personal self.

• DukkhaRelated: The teaching challenges the assumption that a stable self can secure lasting satisfaction.

• EmptinessRelated: Anatta applies the analysis of emptiness to personal identity.

• JivaCompared with: It opposes the Jain claim that each living being has an enduring soul.

• Early BuddhismRelated: Insight into non-self counters the grasping that sustains suffering.

• BardoRelated: It frames rebirth across bardos as causal continuity, not transmigration of an unchanging person.

• PratītyasamutpādaRelated: Dependent arising explains experience without requiring an independent self.

• PudgalavādaRelated: Pudgalavāda sought to explain personal continuity without simply identifying a self with the aggregates.

• Soul (spirituality)Compared with: Anattā challenges the idea of an enduring personal essence that persists unchanged.

• BodhiRelated: Insight into not-self is a central dimension of Buddhist awakening.

• NibbanaRelated: Seeing not-self undermines clinging to an enduring self.

• Three Marks of ExistenceBroader topic: It is the mark that denies a lasting self within conditioned phenomena.

• Rebirth in BuddhismRelated: Its denial of a permanent self creates the central question of continuity across lives.

• Enlightenment in BuddhismRelated: Realizing not-self undermines the self-clinging that sustains ignorance and suffering.

• KhemaRelated: Khema’s discourse to Pasenadi applies this teaching to the question of the Buddha’s fate after death.

• VedanāRelated: Vedanā is analyzed as changing experience, not as a self or possession of one.

• Ajahn BuddhadasaRelated: His readings of non-self challenged the idea of a lasting personal essence.

• Eastern religionsCompared with: It challenges the enduring self affirmed by many Hindu schools.

• Indian religionsCompared with: It challenges the enduring-self accounts found in some neighboring traditions.