Vasubandhu · Theology
Vasubandhu’s <em>Karmasiddhiprakarana</em> (‘Establishing Action’) faces the hardest puzzle of no-self Buddhism: if there is no enduring self and everything is momentary, how can a deed done now bear its fruit lifetimes later? His answer traces a line of seeds carried in the stream of consciousness.
You learned that Vasubandhu’s Karmasiddhi asks how an action can bear fruit much later given no-self and momentariness, and answers that the deed ‘perfumes’ the stream of consciousness with a seed (bija) that matures through the stream’s transformations - a solution that eventually pointed towa…
Leads to Nagasena.
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