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Basic Meaning: to project its own effect

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  • (Skt. phalākṣepa) This is Saṃghabhadraʼs 衆賢 definition of causal efficacy 作用, namely the energy which brings about a specific kind of effect 〔阿毘達磨順正理論 T 1562.29.410b6〕 . Saṃghabhadra upholds the Sarvâstivāda 說一切有部 doctrine, traced back to the *Mahāvibhāṣā, which defines a moment 刹那 as the time required for the conditioned factor 有爲法 to discharge and deplete its causal efficacy 〔阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論 T 1545.27.200a11〕 . A conditioned factor lies latent in the future, while it gathers power, then projects an effect due to the discharge of causal efficacy in the present, before it fades away into a state of dormancy in the past. A moment is envisioned by Sarvâstivāda theorists as consisting in a finite, though meager, temporal duration of little more than a hundredth of a second. [Billy Brewster; source(s): Nakamura]
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    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 67b

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    Entry created: 2020-07-04