འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.18
The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences notes.18
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18. The Viṃśatikā of Vasubandhu (Toh 4056) describes the causal efficacy of external objects using an example, similar to that of BhSS, of a person having intercourse in a dream, but in which the perception is compared to the resulting seminal emission. Nāgārjuna’s Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra gives another similar account, in which three brothers wonder why dreaming of three courtesans who were described to them brought them pleasure and woke them up from sleep. This story is used to teach the emptiness of phenomena. Lamotte (1944), p. 425.