The school of Pudgalavada or Sammitiyas was considered a structural heresy by other Buddhist schools. What was their specific doctrinal position regarding the existence of the person or Pudgala?

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The Pudgalavadins introduced the Pudgala as a workaround to Anatta. If five skandhas are always changing, what transmigrates? They argued the Pudgala is a real person that bears the weight of karma across lifetimes. This was seen as a heresy because it implicitly restored the idea of a stable individual essence, threatening the foundational Buddhist principle of No-Self or Anatta.

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