The History of Buddhist Thought c16.46

c16.46

¹ What there is that is permanent is stated in the Sarvāstivāda form of the Anattalakkhaṇa-sutta, which begins: “ Form has the nature of the destructible, and with its cessation is Nirvāṇa, which is of indestructible nature. Feeling, perception, the aggregates, consciousness, are of destructible nature, and with the cessation of each is Nirvāṇa, of indestructible nature.” Av. Śat., ii, 169.