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15 Life faculty is one of the twenty-two controlling faculties as well as one of
fourteen dharmas not associated with the mind (cittaviprayuktasaNskAra) in the
Sarvastivada system. See Cox (1995: 125–31).
16 Homogeneous character of the group is one of fourteen dharmas not associated
with the mind (cittaviprayuktasaNskAra) and is said to determine the specific
rebirth state of sentient beings. See Cox (1995: 107–12). According to the
AbhidharmakoUabhALya, homogeneous character of the group (nikAyasabhAga,
) and homogeneous character (sabhAgatA, ) were virtually the same
(La Vallée Poussin 1923: 219). Cox translates the former as ‘homogeneous character
of the group’ or ‘the homogeneous collection of components’, the latter as
‘homogeneous character’ (Cox 1995: 109).
17 Mv (TD27 167c): !"K= K= !"#$%&K= !"#$
K= !K= !"#!$K= !"#K= !"#$%&'()
K= !"#$%K= !K
18 Action that projects existence (AkLepakakarman) designates an action that will
project one new existence. For the Sarvastivada-Vaibhalikas, it projects life
faculty ( jAnitendriya) and homogeneous character of the group (nikAyasabhAga)
at the moment of conception, whereas for the Sautrantikas it initiated the
momentum or power (Avedha) into the series of aggregates to last for a certain
lifetime. Later in the Yogacara system, AkLepahetu is one of ten causes and is
used when good or bad action eventually projects its results in one of the three
worlds, the world of desire, the world of form and the world of the formlessness
(DBT p. 326d).
19 It designates vitality (Ayus) mentioned above.
20 Pk (TD26 694a), La Vallée Poussin (1923: 233).
21 See ‘The Theravada exegetical tradition’ in Chapter 3.
22 La Vallée Poussin (1923: 233).
23 SN III p. 143.
24 MN I p. 295. See also Jaini (1959: 539).
25 See ‘The Sarvastivada interpretation in the JñAnaprasthAna’ in Chapter 3.
26 SN V p. 204.
27 Cox (1995: 125).
28 MA (TD2 462b), EA (TD2 628a). See Cox (1995: 122, 130).
29 See Table 3.1, p. 39.
30 Ds (TD26 499a).
31 See Table 3.1, p. 39.
32 Pk (TD26 694a).
33 Mv (TD27 657c).
34 Mv (TD27 732b).
35 Mv (TD27 731c).
36 Literally, it says ‘it allows us to say we are possessed of controlling faculties’.
37 MN I p. 295. See also Jaini (1959a: 539).
38 La Vallée Poussin (1923: 154).
39 Mv (TD27 169a): !"K= !K= !K= !K= !"#$
!"# K= !"#K= !K= !"K= !"#$%&'
!"#K
40 Cf. clinging (upadhi) in the context of ‘without a remainder of clinging’
(anupadhiUeLa) was glossed in Mv (TD27 169a): ‘When saying “as there is no
remainder of clinging”, no [remainder of] clinging is of two kinds: no clinging
as defilement (kleUopadhi) or no clinging as birth body ( janmakAyopadhi). Alternatively,
[no remainder of clinging is of two kinds:] no defiled (kliLta) clinging or
no undefiled clinging.’
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