pudgala

The conventional “me” or “person,” pudgala in Sanskrit, does not exist as an atman, as a “soul,” but persons do exist.

Introduction to Meditation on Voidness (Emptiness) ��� Session One: The Basics for Understanding Voidness 1995

The world further comprises six substances (dravya), viz. souls (jîva), merit (dharma), demerit (adharma), bodies (pudgala), time (kâla), and space (âkâsa).

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

When, in Buddhism, we talk about an “individual being,” a “person” (gang-zag, Skt. pudgala), we’re talking about someone with a mental continuum, regardless of their present life form.

The Buddhist Explanation of Rebirth ��� Part One: The Place of Rebirth in Buddhism and the Topic of Mental Continuums 2001