Note 65 — Chapter VII · THE THEORY OF NON-ATMAN OR NON-EGO.

Buddhists use the term “âtman” in two senses: first, in the sense of personal ego,[65] and secondly, in that of thing-in-itself, perhaps, with a slight modification of its commonly accepted meaning. Let us use the term “âtman” here in its first sense as equivalent to bhûtâtman, for we are going first to treat of the doctrine of non-ego, and later of that of no-thing-in-itself.