Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta, Mahātanhāsaṅkhaya-sutta: 1 definition
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Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Pali Proper NamesSati Thera, a fishermans son, went about saying that, according to the Buddhas doctrine, ones consciousness runs on and continues without break of identity. Hearing this several monks protested, but failed to convince him of his error. Sati was therefore brought before the Buddha and acknowledged that he had spread such a view. The Buddha explains that he had always taught that consciousness arises only by causation and that, without assignable condition, consciousness does not come about.
There are four substances (ahara), which either maintain existing organisms or help those yet to be:
material substance, contact, cogitation, and perception.The derivation and birth of all four substances is craving - craving arises from feeling and so on. Three things must combine for a conception to take place:
the coitus of the parents, the menstruation, at the time, of the mother, and the presence of a being awaiting rebirth (gandhabba). M.i.256 71.Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
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Partial matches: Sutta.
Full-text: Shati.
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