[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789) › 2.37 # 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 2.37 楞伽阿跋多羅寶經註解 2.37 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.37) 當有因者，謂所作因，乃根塵所生法，是現在因，能招當來之果也。相續因者，謂攀緣根塵成善惡業，續生後陰種子，果復為因也。相因者，謂作無間斷善惡業相，因果相續不斷也。作因者，謂於因上作因，如轉輪王已獲勝報，更作勝因，名增上也。顯示因者，謂凡妄想事生必有因，能作所作境相，如燈照物，顯然可見也。待因者，謂妄想滅時還作，作時還滅；若相續念斷，則不妄想性生，以妄待不妄，是為待因也。 > "The cause of future existence" means that the cause which is performed—being dharmas produced by sense faculties and dust—is a present cause, capable of inviting a future fruit. "The cause of continuity" means that grasping at faculties and dust forms good and evil karma, which continues to produce the seeds of subsequent aggregates, so that the fruit again becomes a cause. "The cause of characteristics" means producing characteristics of uninterrupted good and evil karma, with cause and effect continuing without interruption. "The efficient cause" means producing a cause upon a cause, like a wheel-turning king who, having already obtained supreme retribution, further creates supreme causes; this is called 'predominant.' "The revealing cause" means that wherever falsely imagined affairs arise, they must have a cause, manifesting the objective characteristics of what can act and what is acted upon, just as a lamp illuminating objects makes them clearly visible. "The dependent cause" means that when false imagination ceases, it acts again, and when it acts, it ceases again; if continuous thought is severed, then an unfalsely imagined nature arises; using the false to depend upon the non-false—this is the dependent cause. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.36) - [Next: 2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.38) - [Up: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789~en-mt.2.37) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་ལང་ཀར་གཤེགས་པའི་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.lankavatara*bo.3.13) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.1789.2.37) · Pramāṇa