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瑜伽師地論略纂 3.30

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Regarding whether it is a permanent characteristic or an impermanent characteristic: it is shared across the three times, so it is called a common characteristic. If it is a permanent characteristic, this is a hypothetical cross-examination, not their actual school. The formal inference is: "The five skandhas in your school should not fall into the three times; because you accept that their characteristic is permanent; like the unconditioned." If it is an impermanent characteristic, that they are constantly existent across the three times also does not stand to reason. The formal inference is: "The five skandhas in your school are not constantly and substantially existent across the three times; because their characteristic is impermanent; like the horns of a hare." If they say this is an affirmative statement of impermanence and not an exclusion, the formal inference is: "The dharmas of the five skandhas are not constantly existent across the three times; because they are subsumed under the temporal periods; like an illusion." Under the objection

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