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15. See Buswell and Lopez (2014) under “pudgala” and “pudgalavāda.” See also McDermott (1980), pp. 168–69. There may also be some theoretical discrepancy between the causality described in the Bhava­saṅkrānti­sūtra, in which the action from the past ceases before the first consciousness of the next birth arises (although the two are causally connected), and the general Sarvāstivādin view that maintains that past, present, and future actions exist simultaneously.

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