pudgala
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pudgala
(Sanskrit, person; Pāli, puggala). 1. A person, in the everyday sense of an individual.
2. The concept of personhood, particularly in the philosophical sense of an enduring self similar to (but not quite the same as) the eternal soul (ātman), which Buddhism denies.See pudgala-vāda.
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