Dear Ven. Kumara and Nina,

pardon me.

nissattanijjiivata = selfless/soulless.

And from this discussion of khandha (or nissattanijjiivata dhamma), it
leads us to the concept of anatta.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, Ong Yong Peng wrote:

as I have mentioned in a previous post, My opinion is that this is an
implied meaning of the word 'dhamma'. That is to say, 'dhamma' is not
an adjective meaning nissattanijjiivata. However, in certain passages
where the word 'dhamma' refer to 'khandha', i.e., instead of
'khandha', the word 'dhamma' is used in its place, we can understand
'dhamma' as something of the characteristic 'nissattanijjiivata' (self.