Re: vibhūta in AN 11.10

Dear Bryan,
Op 20-okt-2012, om 17:48 heeft Bryan Levman het volgende geschreven:

>  I have read (I think in Collins Selfless Persons) that some 
> branches of Theravadin Buddhism believe in a "between-lives 
> period" (as the Tibetans do, calling it a bardo), where re-birth 
> consciousness is delayed and not instantaneous. Are you familiar 
> with this view?
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N: Yes, but it is not in accordance with the Theravada Tipi.taka. It 
is like now, each citta, such as seeing, falls away, but it is 
immediately succeeded by the following one in that process, the 
sampaticchana-citta, receiving-consciousness, and so the cycle of 
birth and death goes on and on, until arahatship is reached and there 
is no more rebirth-consciousness.
The situation of dying is not different from this moment.
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Nina.



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