"The self" is not anything other than the five skandhas

(1) “The self” is not anything other than the five skandhas (individually or collectively considered).

• (1) “The self” is not anything other than the five skandhas (individually or collectively considered).

• (2) None of the skandhas is permanent.

• Therefore

• (3) “The self” is not permanent.

Can this Buddhist view of a transcendent Self be reconciled with the anatta doctrine?

• Can this Buddhist view of a transcendent Self be reconciled with the anatta doctrine?

So the Buddhist anatta doctrine may be compatible with the conception of Atman affirmed in Advaita Vedanta, namely a single, pure undifferentiated consciousness.

• So the Buddhist anatta doctrine may be compatible with the conception of Atman affirmed in Advaita Vedanta, namely a single, pure undifferentiated consciousness.

• This may explain why bhakti vedantins accused Sankara of being a crypto-Buddhist.