འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.16
The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences intro.16
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intro.16
The Sautrāntikas maintained that karma, too, is momentary, and thus an action leads to an evolving stream of germinal potentialities (bīja or “seed”) leading to the fruition. The difference in the Bhavasaṅkrāntisūtra and other Mahāyāna sūtras is that all the elements of the transmigration—consciousness, karma, and so forth—are said not to arise, remain, or cease; they are devoid of essential nature, so any seeming functioning of karma is an illusion.