identitylessness

Its total nonexistence is called identitylessness, or "selflessness."

The Gelug-Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra ��� Session Eight 1997

The total absence of such an impossible manner of existence as a frog is known as the “lack of an impossible ‘soul’ of a person” (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, selflessness of a person, identitylessness of a person) and a voidness (stong-pa-nyid, emptiness).

What Does a Buddha Know in Knowing the Past, Present, and Future? ��� Part One: Temporally Related Phenomena 2009

Milarepa was skilfully guiding him into meditation on voidness and identitylessness, but without ever mentioning voidness, or making a big thing out of it.

Milarepa Leads a Youth to Realize the True Nature of the Mind 2008

These, then, are the different ways in which Milarepa taught and led people, through meditation on identitylessness, to the true nature of the mind.

Milarepa Leads a Youth to Realize the True Nature of the Mind 2008

The object of negation for the lack of an impossible “soul” of a person (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, identitylessness of a person, selflessness of a person), which we need to realize for gaining liberation, is different from the object of negation for the lack of impossible “soul” of all phenomena (chos-kyi bdag-med, identitylessness of all phenomena, selflessness of all phenomena), which one needs to realize for gaining enlightenment.

Special Features of the Gelug Tradition 2006

In a Hinayana context, we may focus either on the sixteen aspects of the four noble truths themselves, or on the sixteen aspects as devoid of an impossible soul of a person (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, selflessness of a person, identitylessness of a person).

The Five Pathway Minds (Five Paths): Advanced Presentation 2006

Also, although bdag-med (lack of an impossible “soul”; selflessness; identitylessness) and bden-med (lack of truly established existence) are exactly the same in Prasangika, yet in some lower systems of tenets, there are important differences, such as all phenomena being bdag-med, but not accepting that they are all bden-med.

Guidelines from the Mongolian Experience for Translating Tibetan Buddhist Texts lCang-skya Rol-pa'i rdo-rje 2006

Yogic bare cognition is of subtle nonstaticness (mi-rtag-pa phra-mo, subtle impermanence) or the absolute absence of an impossible “soul” of a person (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, identitylessness of a person, selflessness of a person).

Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug and Non-Gelug Presentations in Alternating Order 2006

To gain liberation or enlightenment requires nonconceptual cognition that persons, for instance “me,” lack an impossible soul. (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, the selflessness of persons, the identitylessness of persons).

The Distinction between Self-sufficiently Knowable and Imputedly Knowable Phenomena 2006

Yogic bare cognition is of subtle nonstaticness (mi-rtag-pa phra-mo, subtle impermanence) or the absolute absence of an impossible “soul” of a person (gang-zag-gi bdag-med, identitylessness of a person, selflessness of a person).

Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Gelug Presentation 2006