“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...

Anatta - Buddhism teaches that there is no permanent self or soul. Because there is no unchanging permanent essence or soul, Buddhists sometimes talk about energy being reborn, rather than souls.

Perhaps this could be a mechanism for Jung’s “collective unconscious” and Buddhism’s anatta, the relation of all with all. Could the detection and treatment of neuropsychiatric disease ...

When I wrote “Will SL govt. do better than the UK Labour administration?” (The Island, 18 October), I never imagined that ...

This book seeks to explain carefully and sympathetically the Buddhist doctrine of anatta ('not-self'), which denies the existence of any self, soul or enduring essence in man. The author relates this ...

Pratityasamutpada close Paticcasamupada (Pratityasamutpada)The concept of dependent arising. The belief that everything in existence is because other things are. The idea that everything is ...

About ten months ago, among other things, I informally discussed the devolution of power with Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who ...