Pudgalavada Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

The Pudgalavāda or "Personalist" school of Buddhism broke off from the orthodox Sthaviravāda; (elders) school around 280 BCE. The Sthaviravādins interpreted the doctrine of anatta to mean that, since there is no true "self", all that we think of as a self (i.e., the subject of sentences, the being that transmigrates) is merely the aggregated skandhsas. The Pudgalavādins asserted that, while there is no ātman;, there is a pudgala or "person", which is neither the same as nor different from the skandhas. They would argue that without such a person, it is impossible to account for karma, rebirth, or nirvana.

See also

• Early Buddhist schools
• Nikaya Buddhism
• Schools of Buddhism

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