‖n. [ Skr. ātman. ] (Hinduism) (a) The life principle, soul, or individual essence. (b) The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
[むが, muga](n) (1) selflessness; self-effacement; self-renunciation; (2) { Buddh } anatman (no-self, the Buddhist concept that in nothing does there exist an inherent self, soul, or ego); (P)[Add to Longdo]