The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2151 page)

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Sa-skya
(order of Tibetan Buddhism):
Sassatav
da
(P
li)
or
vatav
da
(Skt.). Eternalism, the doctrine of an immutable soul or self which survives death and continues everlastingly. Both eternalism and its opposite view, annihilationism, are versions of the so-called soul heresy (
sakk
ya-di
hi
) and represent, according to Buddhism, the two alternative directions which misrepresentations of reality take.
stra(s)

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