成唯識論述記 8.635

8.635

以上第三、問答分別，以下第四、辨二死別。問：且如決定姓阿羅漢等，留諸壽行捨衣鉢等入邊際定，以修福力資現命業亦得延壽，變易生死有何別耶？

The above is the third [section], distinction through questions and answers; below is the fourth, discerning the difference between the two kinds of birth-and-death. Question: For example, arhats of determinate nature and so on, when abandoning lifespan-formations, giving up robes and bowls, and entering the culmination concentration (prāntakoṭika-dhyāna), can also extend their lifespan by sustaining the karma of their present life through the power of cultivating merit; what difference is there between that and the transmigration of transformation?