Makkhali Gosala
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Makkhali Gosala or Manthaliputra Goshalak was an ascetic ajivika teacher of ancient India. He was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and of Mahavira, the last and 24th Tirthankara of Jainism. Wikipedia
Died: 485 BC
Ajita Kesakambalī (Lokāyata): Materialism: live happily; with death, all is annihilated
Makkhali Gośāla (Ājīvika): Niyativāda (Fatalism): we are powerless; suffering is pre-destined
Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta (Jainism): Restraint: be endowed with, cleansed by; and suffused with the avoidance of all evil.2
Notes: 1. DN 2 (Thanissaro, 1997; Walshe, 1995, pp. 91-109). 2. DN-a (Ñāṇamoli & Bodhi, 1995, pp. 1258-59, n. 585).: v; t; e
Pūraṇa Kassapa: Amoralism: denies any reward or; punishment for either good or bad deeds