Beyond Self and No-Self: Reconstructing the Buddha’s Middle-Way Account of Selfhood in the Early Buddhist Nikāyas

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The Buddha's silence on selfhood, previously interpreted as either affirming or denying a self, is reinterpreted as a structural refusal of a false dichotomy, preserving the mutual co-presence of conditioned experience and the unconditioned. This 'middle-way selfhood' is real yet non-substantial, with nibbāna as its manifestation horizon.

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