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The 33 pages that link to Atman, each with the reason it gives.

• Advaita VedantaRelated: Advaita holds that Atman is not ultimately distinct from Brahman.

• UpanishadsRelated: Many Upanishads investigate whether the self is more than the changing body and mind.

• MokshaRelated: Some Hindu accounts make knowledge of atman central to liberation.

• KarmaCompared with: Some Hindu accounts connect karma across lives through an enduring self.

• BrahmanRelated: The relation between atman and Brahman is central to several accounts of liberation.

• SamsaraRelated: Many Hindu explanations of samsara describe the atman as continuing through successive bodies.

• AnattāCompared with: Anattā rejects an enduring self of the kind affirmed by many theories of ātman.

• VedantaRelated: The identity or difference between Atman and Brahman is a defining Vedanta question.

• ReincarnationRelated: Some Hindu accounts identify the reborn subject with an enduring self.

• NyayaRelated: Nyaya argues that memory, desire, and agency require a persistent self distinct from the body.

• VishishtadvaitaRelated: Individual selves remain distinct yet wholly dependent on Brahman.

• RamanujaRelated: For Ramanuja, individual selves are real and depend on Brahman.

• Adi ShankaraRelated: Shankara teaches that Atman is not ultimately separate from Brahman.

• Brahma SutrasRelated: The sutras address the self’s relation to Brahman and its fate after death.

• JivaCompared with: Jain jiva resembles some accounts of atman but has its own plural, embodied framework.

• Jnana YogaRelated: Discerning the self is the central object of Jnana Yoga's inquiry.

• Five aggregatesCompared with: The aggregates are not treated as an ātman or its permanent components.

• MayaRelated: Advaita's remedy for Maya is recognizing Atman as non-different from Brahman.

• VasubandhuCompared with: Vasubandhu’s Buddhist analyses explain experience without positing an enduring self.

• Indian philosophyCompared with: The dispute over whether a permanent self exists is a defining cross-school disagreement.

• PudgalavādaCompared with: Pudgalavāda denied that its person was a permanent self wholly separate from aggregates.

• Three Marks of ExistenceCompared with: The non-self mark challenges the idea of an enduring personal essence.

• GaudapadaRelated: The Kārikā examines whether the self is truly divided by waking, dreaming, and sleep.

• Rebirth in BuddhismCompared with: Buddhist teachings on non-self reject the kind of permanent entity Ātman describes.

• VaisheshikaRelated: Vaisheshika treats the self as a substance that bears cognition, desire, and other qualities.

• Hindu philosophyRelated: Disputes over whether the self is unitary, plural, or ultimately identical with Brahman shape school differences.

• OmRelated: The Mandukya Upanishad connects Om’s syllabic states with the self and its forms of awareness.

• ŚramaṇaCompared with: Buddhist renunciants disputed an enduring self, while other Śramaṇa views differed.

• Ramana MaharshiRelated: Ramana used Self to name what remains when the separate ego is investigated.

• Uddālaka ĀruṇiRelated: The Śvetaketu dialogue connects individual identity with the deepest ground of reality.

• Brahma KumarisRelated: Brahma Kumaris teachings identify each person as an eternal soul distinct from the body.

• Eastern religionsCompared with: Its affirmation highlights a central disagreement with Buddhist teachings on no-self.

• Indian religionsCompared with: Its affirmation contrasts with Buddhist denials of a permanent self.