Sanjaya Belatthiputta | |
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Personal | |
Religion | Ajñana |
Flourished | 6th century BCE |
Views of the six heretical teachers | |
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The views of six śramaṇa in the Pāli Canon, known as the six heretical teachers, based on the Sāmaññaphala Sutta.[1] | |
Pūraṇa Kassapa | |
Amoralism | There is no reward or punishment for either good or bad deeds. |
Makkhali Gośāla (Ājīvika) | |
Fatalism (niyativāda) | We are powerless; suffering is pre-destined. |
Ajita Kesakambalī (Charvaka) | |
Materialism | Live happily; with death, all is annihilated. |
Pakudha Kaccāyana | |
Eternalism (sassatavāda) | Matter, pleasure, pain and the soul are eternal and do not interact. |
Mahavira (Jainism) | |
Restraint | Be endowed with, cleansed by, and suffused with the avoidance of all evil.[2] |
Sañjaya Belaṭṭhiputta (Ajñana) | |
Agnosticism | "I don't think so. I don't think in that way or otherwise. I don't think not or not not." Suspension of judgement. |
Sañjaya Belatthiputra (Pali: Sañjaya Belaṭṭhiputta; Sanskrit: Sañjaya Vairatiputra; literally, "Sañjaya of the Belattha clan"), was an Indian ascetic philosopher who lived around the 7th-6th century BC in the region of Magadha. He was contemporaneous with Mahavira, Makkhali Gosala, Ajita Kesakambali and the Buddha, and was a proponent of the ajñana school of thought.[3]
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