Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c7.s3.t19.12
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c7.s3.t19.12
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c7.s3.t19.12
Buddhaghosa: The absence of the present (vattamāna) is not possible, for it is self-contradictory, because it must be either past or future. Besides, it would also be incorrect to say that the absence of the present is Nibbāna, for in the present life at a certain moment (vattamānakkhandhanissitamaggakkhaṇe)¹ one obtains the sopādisesa-nibbānadhātu (i.e., Nibbāna with corporal residue).