だんけん

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of だんけん – see the following entry.
断見
[noun] (Buddhism) ucchedavādā, annihilationism, materialism (the wrongly held belief, or delusion, that nothing is permanent, there is no cause and effect, and all, including the self or atman, is annihilated at death)
(This term, だんけん (danken), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)