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Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c7.s3.t23.24

Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c7.s3.t23.24

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c7.s3.t23.24

(i) Mokṣa (deliverance) would be bhāva and abhāva, and this would mean that the presence of saṃskāras as well as their extinction represents deliverance (mokṣa). But the former cannot be mokṣa, and therefore Nirvāṇa is not both bhāva and abhāva.