The Significance of the Injunction to Hold Oneself and the Dhamma as an Island and a Refuge in the Buddha’s Teaching
By Abraham Vélez de Cea
17 pages… if the Buddha exhorts his disciples to take attā and Dhamma as an island and refuge, those two terms, dhamma and attā, denote the same reality. This identity […] is highly problematic
A straightforward refutation of the absurd claim that a famous idiom of the Buddha contradicts the central doctrine of non-self.