[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.20 # འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.20 The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences intro.20 - **Language:** English ### [intro.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.20) Moving on to the verses, the pertain to the Buddhist nominalist position that all phenomena are only nominally existent (prajñaptisat), having no independent substantial existence (dravyasat), a position that was used by Madhyamaka thinkers to support their school’s interpretation of emptiness.²⁰ - [Previous: intro.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.19) - [Next: intro.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.21) - [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.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.bhavasankranti*bo~en-84000.intro.20) · Pramāṇa