がしゅう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of がしゅう – see the following entry.
我執
[noun] (Buddhism) the belief that the ego exists, in opposition to the Buddhist concept of anattā or non-self
[noun] (derogatory) egotistic stubbornness, obsession that only one's own ideas are correct
(This term, がしゅう (gashū), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)