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The denial of the ātman of an unchanging, undying essence, does not mean that the Buddha held a nihilistic view of the total annihilation of body and mind with the extinction of tanhā. That the Buddha held no extreme view—either an eternalist view or an annihilationist view —is clearly stated in the texts.
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4 The Tileravāda Point of View
Zarathustra, Pt. I. Chap. 9. quoted by Paul Tillich, Courage to Be (New York: Yale University Press, 1952) p. 27.
David E. Roberts, Existentialism and Religious Belief ( New York: OUP, 1957 ) P. 17.
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de Silva, L.A. (1979). The Theravāda Point of View. In: The Problem of the Self in Buddhism and Christianity. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03729-2_4
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