{"id":1284,"date":"2015-04-29T03:01:08","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2015-04-29T03:01:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:01:08","slug":"atmananatman-in-buddhism-and-its-implication-for-the-wisdom-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/atmananatman-in-buddhism-and-its-implication-for-the-wisdom-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0100tman\/An\u0101tman in Buddhism and Its Implication for the Wisdom Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As for the relevance of <em>The \u0100tman-Brahman in Ancient Buddhism<\/em> to the \u201cBook of Dzyan,\u201d the Upani\u1e63adic <em>\u0101tman<\/em> or <em>brahman<\/em> has been equated by Blavatsky and the Theosophical Mahatma teachers to the first fundamental proposition of the Secret Doctrine: an omnipresent, eternal, boundless, and immutable principle. They give this as being what the Buddha originally taught, in accordance with what is taught in the ancient Wisdom Tradition that they represent. Since the Buddha denied the <em>\u0101tman<\/em>, long taken by the Buddhist religion to be the <em>\u0101tman<\/em> taught in the Hindu Upani\u1e63ads, the Theosophical Mahatma teachers appear to be woefully uninformed, if not altogether imaginary. Kamaleswar Bhattacharya\u2019s research found in this book is therefore of much importance to students of Theosophy. The main points of his research have been excerpted and placed within this context in the article by Nancy Reigle, \u201c<em>\u0100tman\/An\u0101tman<\/em> in Buddhism and Its Implication for the Wisdom Tradition,\u201d available here as: <a href=\"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Atman_Anatman-in-Buddhism.pdf\">Atman_Anatman in Buddhism<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for the relevance of The \u0100tman-Brahman in Ancient Buddhism to the \u201cBook of Dzyan,\u201d the Upani\u1e63adic \u0101tman or brahman has been equated by Blavatsky and the Theosophical Mahatma teachers to the first fundamental proposition of the Secret Doctrine: an omnipresent, eternal, boundless, and immutable principle. They give this as being what the Buddha originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noteworthy-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prajnaquest.fr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}