འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.1
The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences notes.1
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1. The ideas that actions committed in the past appear to the mind at the moment of death, and that a person’s last thought determines their next existence, are not frequently encountered in Mahāyāna literature. There are, however, precedents for the second idea—the karmic efficacy of final thoughts—in Hindu and early Buddhist texts. See McDermott (1980), pp. 177–78. For an example from the Pali suttas, see MN 3.214 in Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli and Bhikkhu Bodhi (1995), pp. 261–62.