[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Tibetan canon (Kangyur & Tengyur)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet) › [Kangyur (translated words of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur) › [General sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde) › [འཕགས་པ་ལེགས་ཉེས་ཀྱི་རྒྱུ་དང་འབྲས་བུ་བསྟན་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354) › [Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000) › intro.2 # འཕགས་པ་ལགས་ཉས་ཀྱ་རྒྱ་དང་འབྲས་བ་བསྟན་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བ་ཐག་པ་ཆན་པའ་མད intro.2 Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill intro.2 - **Language:** English ### [intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.intro.2) In Teaching the Causes and Results of Good and Ill, Ānanda asks the Buddha why different beings experience different fortunes and what types of past actions have now ripened into their respective conditions. The Buddha answers by elucidating the inconceivable dynamics of karma through a series of examples of virtuous and nonvirtuous actions along with their positive and negative results. While these one-to-one correspondences might strike the reader as an oversimplification of a very subtle and complex process, such pedagogical devices are common in the Buddhist tradition. Notably, in the classical presentation of the three types of karmic results (Tib. las kyi ’bras bu gsum), the second is said to be the “correlated effect” (Tib. rgyu mthun pa’i ’bras bu), which describes how results mirror their causes. - [Previous: intro.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.intro.1) - [Next: intro.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.intro.3) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.intro.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.tibet.kangyur.mdo_sde.354~en-84000.intro.2) · Pramāṇa