Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c8.s5.7

c8.s5.7

In Buddhism, an individual existence is regarded as an aggregate, a stream of transient factors.³¹ In its earlier phase, the doctrine of momentariness was essentially a doctrine of the transience of psychic states without any permanent substratum. It did not mean in early phase the unqualified denial of all substances.³² There were debates within Buddhist sects on the concept of momentariness, as recorded in *Abhidharmakośa*. Finally, the momentariness came to be accepted at the level of experience.