成唯識論演祕 2.423

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This relates the challenge made by the Sarvāstivāda school against the Sautrāntika. According to the Nyāyānusāra, fascicle thirteen: "If in a place there are no internal five physical sensory bases that are karmically matured, and at that time there is also no sixth mental sensory base projected by karma—namely, in a state where defiled consciousness, or wholesome sāsrava or anāsrava consciousness, arises in continuation over an extended period—since there is no karmically matured portion projected by karma, what can be spoken of as the life-faculty?"