THE CONCEPT OF CHANGE-AS TREATED IN BUDDHISM -SACTION-I HINAYANA BUDDHISM

In all the four schools of Buddhism, the doctrine of pratitya-samutpāda plays the pivotal role representing the different Buddhistic theories of change. The Buddhistic theories of change differ according to the different interpretations of the doctrine of pratitya-samutpada given by different Buddhist schools. Accordingly in the Vaibhaṣika school, the doctrine of pratitya- samutpada stands for

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त्रिवेदी वैभाषिक एवं सौत्रान्तिक दृष्टि से प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद को परिवर्तन के सिद्धान्त के रूप में पढ़ती हैं — नैरात्म्यवाद, पाँच स्कन्ध, क्षणिक स्वलक्षण तथा सामान्य की कल्पनामात्रता, कर्ता के स्थान पर सन्तानवाद, और द्वादशाङ्ग प्रतीत्यसमुत्पाद-शृंखला के मूल में अविद्या, जो उनके मत में दुःख का अन्तिम कारण है। Trivedi reads pratityasamutpada in the Vaibhashika and Sautrantika schools as a theory of change: nairatmya, the five skandhas, momentary svalakshana with universals as mental construction, santana in place of an agent, and ignorance at the root of the twelvefold chain.

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