[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Bhavasaṅkrāntisūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti) › [འཕགས་པ་སྲིད་པ་འཕོ་བ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo) › [The Sutra on Transmigration Through Existences](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000) › intro.14 # འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.14 The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences intro.14 - **Language:** English ### [intro.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.14) 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. - [Previous: intro.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.13) - [Next: intro.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.15) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.14) · Pramāṇa