On the left: Mahakashyapa meets an Ajivika and learns of the Parinirvana[1]
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The views of six śramaṇa in the Pāli Canon (based on the Buddhist text Sāmaññaphala Sutta1)
Śramaṇa
view (diṭṭhi)1
Pūraṇa Kassapa
Amoralism: denies any reward or punishment for either good or bad deeds.
Makkhali Gośāla (Ājīvika)
Niyativāda (Fatalism): we are powerless; suffering is pre-destined.
Ajita Kesakambalī (Lokāyata)
Materialism: live happily; with death, all is annihilated.
Pakudha Kaccāyana
Sassatavāda (Eternalism): Matter, pleasure, pain and the soul are eternal and do not interact.
Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta (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.
Notes:
1. DN 2 (Thanissaro, 1997; Walshe, 1995, pp. 91-109). 2. DN-a (Ñāṇamoli & Bodhi, 1995, pp. 1258-59, n. 585).
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