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Understanding Dhamma
The white background
suggests the undisturbed ground of appearance. The Buddha must have had a
clear understanding of (and belief in) atta in order to be able to claim
that the person (i.e. any cluster-as-thing) is anatta (i.e. not-atta). Unfortunately - possibly for tactical reasons - he never defined
this key term; nor did he define nibbana. He did claim that upon
attaining nirvana amata (or amara), the deathless (elsewhere
translated as the immortal), happened.
The Buddha’s pilgrimage to
nirvana
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