Identity and Continuity of ‘Personality’ of Selfless Being: A Study of the Concept of Bhavaṅga-citta in Theravāda Buddhism
By Dipen Barua
320 pagesThree interpretations of bhavaṅga have been taken up for discussion. One is as found in the Netti that bhavaṅga designates each link of twelve factors of dependent co-arising in the context of āsava, which together produce bhava. Psychological and cosmological interpretations of bhava have been studied. […] The third interpretation occurs in the commentaries that bhavaṅga-consciousness is luminous and pure, it is a natural consciousness and all beings pass away with this state of consciousness.