Sanjaya Belatthiputta

Sanjaya Belatthiputta
Personal
ReligionAjñana
Flourished6th century BCE
Views of the six heretical teachers
The views of six śramaṇa in the Pāli Canon, known as the six heretical teachers, based on the Sāmaññaphala Sutta.[1]
Pūraṇa Kassapa
AmoralismThere 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)
MaterialismLive happily; with death, all is annihilated.
Pakudha Kaccāyana
Eternalism (sassatavāda)Matter, pleasure, pain and the soul are eternal and do not interact.
Mahavira (Jainism)
RestraintBe 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]

  1. ^ "DN 2 Sāmaññaphala Sutta; The Fruits of the Contemplative Life". www.dhammatalks.org. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  2. ^ Bhikku, Ñāṇamoli; Bhikku, Bodhi (9 November 1995). The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya (Fourth ed.). Simon and Schuster. pp. 1258–59. ISBN 978-0-86171-072-0. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  3. ^ Chakravarty (2021).

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