A Popular Dictionary of Buddhism
The philosophic doctrine that denies a substantial reality to the phenomenal universe. Bsm. takes the middle path between the realists (astika), who maintain the universe to be real, and the non-realists (nāstika), who deny all reality. The Buddha condemned both the astika and the nāstika concepts. (See Mādhyamika.)
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