常じょう見けん

noun

eternalism; sassatavada

Buddhist technical term for the belief in the permanence of things, often contrasted with 断見 (annihilationism).

• 仏ぶっ教きょうでは、常じょう見けんは断だん見けんとともに二ふたつの極きょく端たんな見けん解かいの一ひとつとされる。

  In Buddhism, eternalism is considered one of the two extreme views, along with annihilationism.