Natthika Ditthi, Natthikadiṭṭhi, Natthikaditthi: 6 definitions
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Natthika Ditthi means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
'nihilistic view' (a doctrine that all values are baseless, that nothing is knowable or can be communicated, and that life itself is meaningless), s. ditthi.
Branch of Sakkaya Ditthi; Natthika Ditthi: is the wrong view which denies both the Law of Causality and the Resultant effect. It emphasizes that all animate or inanimate things are causeless, and deeds good or evil will not bear any fruit and have no meaning and will amount to nothing.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
natthikadiṭṭhi : hililistic view.
Natthikadiṭṭhi refers to: scepticism, nihilistic view, heresy Sn. 243 (=micchāditthi Com.); VvA. 342; PvA. 244;
Note: natthikadiṭṭhi is a Pali compound consisting of the words natthika and diṭṭhi.
natthikadiṭṭhi (နတ္ထိကဒိဋ္ဌိ) [(thī) (ထီ)]—
[natthika+diṭṭhi．(nāstikadaṭi-saṃ)]
[နတ္ထိက+ဒိဋ္ဌိ။ (နာသ္တိကဒဋိ-သံ)]
[Pali to Burmese]
natthikadiṭṭhi—
(Burmese text): (၁) နတ္ထိကအယူ၊ ဒါန စေတနာ၏ အကျိုး စသည်မရှိဟူသော-အယူမှား-အမြင်မှား။ (တိ) (၂) နတ္ထိက အယူရှိသော၊ ဒါန စေတနာ၏ အကျိုးစသည်မရှိ ဟူသော-အယူမှား-အမြင်မှား-ရှိသော၊ သူ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The belief that there is no benefit from the intention of generosity is a wrong belief and a wrong view. (2) The one who holds the belief that there is no benefit from the intention of generosity, despite having a belief in it, is also one who has a wrong belief and a wrong view.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Natthika, Ditthi.
Full-text: Nihilistic View, Niyata Micchaditthi, Ditthi.
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