འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.14
The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences intro.14
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Regardless of this disparity, the prose section of the sūtra provides a standard early Buddhist explanation of rebirth. As in the analogy of the dream, even something we know so well to be illusory can have consequences: the dreamer remembers the dream woman or even goes out searching for her.¹⁸ In the same way, although nothing passes from one life to another, the effects of the actions of one life can shape the next.