Makkhali Gosala

Views of six śramaṇa
Views of six śramaṇa
The views of six śramaṇa in the Pāli Canon, based on the Buddhist text Sāmaññaphala Sutta
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.
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.

Makkhali Gosala
Makkhali Gosala
	On the left: Mahakashyapa meets an Ajivika and learns of the Parinirvana
Personal
Religion	Founder of Ajivika

Makkhali Gosala (Pāli; BHS: Maskarin Gośāla; Jain Prakrit sources: Gosala Mankhaliputta) or Manthaliputra Goshalak (b. about 523 BCE) was an ascetic ajivika teacher of ancient India. He was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and of Mahavira, the last and 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.

^ Marianne Yaldiz, Herbert Härtel, Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State Museums; an Exhibition Lent by the Museum Für Indische Kunst, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982 p. 78
^ "DN 2 Sāmaññaphala Sutta; The Fruits of the Contemplative Life". www.dhammatalks.org. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
^ 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.

[1] Marianne Yaldiz, Herbert Härtel, Along the Ancient Silk Routes: Central Asian Art from the West Berlin State Museums; an Exhibition Lent by the Museum Für Indische Kunst, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982 p. 78

[2] "DN 2 Sāmaññaphala Sutta; The Fruits of the Contemplative Life". www.dhammatalks.org. Retrieved 10 July 2024.

[3] 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.

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