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The Selfless (nairatmya, bdag med)

The first category of the Buddhist world is the selfless. In the Prasangika system the selfless means that which does not inherently exist. Both existents and non-existents do not inherently exist. Since nothing inherently exists, this is the broadest possible category.

The category called ‘selfless’ has two divisions:


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