འཕགས་པ་སྲད་པ་འཕ་བ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད notes.38
The Sūtra on Transmigration Through Existences notes.38
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38. Here Taishō 575 is unique among all the sources, reading “there is one phenomenon that transmigrates from this life into the future life.” Based on this statement, Sastri theorizes that this edition may indicate that the sūtra originates from schools, such as the Vātsiputrīya and Saṃmitīya, that assert the transmigration of a “person” (pudgala) or some similar phenomenon from one life to the next. See introduction, ; and Sastri (1938), pp. xvi–xvii. However, with little context or commentary for this statement in Taishō 575, it is difficult to say exactly what is meant by this curious statement.