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Sanjaya Belatthiputta

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Sañjaya Belatthiputra (Pali: Sañjaya Belaṭṭhiputta; Sanskrit: Sañjaya Vairatiputra; literally, "Sañjaya of the Belattha clan"), was an Indian ascetic philosopher who lived around the 7th-6th century BC in the region of Magadha. He was contemporaneous with Mahavira, Makkhali Gosala, Ajita Kesakambali and the Buddha, and was a proponent of the ajñana school of thought.

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Philosophers who discussed Sanjaya Belatthiputta

• The Buddha

Related ideas

• Jainism
• Materialism
• Śāriputra
• Mahavira
• Sanskrit
• Śramaṇa
• The Buddha
• Pali
• Ajñana
• Dialectic
• Makkhali Gosala
• Agnosticism
• Existentialism
• Ajita Kesakambali
• Brahmajāla Sutta

Place in the tradition

Part of Ajñana.

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