法苑珠林 97.34

97.34

論中釋曰。若人必往惡道受生及人道。如此等人。次第於阿羅漢。此人於心意識斷絕。有餘部說於頭上。何以故。身根於此等處與意識俱滅故。若人正死。此身根如熱。石水漸漸縮滅。於脚等處次第而滅。釋云。俱舍論述小乘義。故云身於此等處與意識俱滅。若依大乘。身根於此等處與本識俱滅也。

The commentary in the treatise explains: If a person is bound to go to an evil realm for rebirth, or to the human realm, for such persons, [or] gradually for an arhat, this person's mental consciousness ceases at the heart. Other schools say it ceases at the head. Why is this? Because the body faculty is extinguished together with the mental consciousness at these places. When a person is dying, this body faculty is like hot stone and water gradually contracting and extinguishing, extinguishing in succession at places such as the feet. The explanation says: The Abhidharmakośa-śāstra expounds the Hīnayāna meaning, and therefore says that the body is extinguished together with the mental consciousness at these places. If according to the Mahāyāna, the body faculty is extinguished together with the fundamental consciousness (ālaya-vijñāna) at these places.