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Why Buddhas can't remember their previous lives(4)

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     and   (2)   are   therefore   false.   Second,
     philosophically,  it  could  be  claimed   that  the
     argument  as it stands is invalid, Either challenge,
     fully explored  and discussed, could  prove fruitful
     and productive of new knowledge.

      Finally, a brief  comment  on what  Buddhas  can
     have if they cannot  have memory  of their  previous
     lives.  They can have propositional knowledge of the
     truth  of large (perhaps  infinitely  large) sets of
     propositions  of the form experiential  event  E1 is
     causally  related to experiential  event E in such a
     way  that  it  is  proper   to  say  that  E1  is  a
     re-presentation of E.  But knowledge of propositions
     is, phenomenologically, very  far from  sm.rti  (and
     memory).

               NOTES

      1.  This is the burden  of the account  given by
     Vasubandhu   in   the   ninth   chapter   of   the
     Abhidharmako`sabhaa.sya:  yadi   tarhi   sarvathaapi
     naasty   aatmaa   katha.m   k.sa.nike.su   citte.su
     ciraanubhuutasyaarthasya   smara.na.m   bhavati
     pratyabhij~naana.m vaa/sm.rtivi.sayasa.mj~naanvayaac
     cittavi`se.saat/kiidr`saac   cittavi`se.saat   yato
     'nantara.m sm.rtir bhavati/ tadaabhogasad.r-
     `sasambandhisa.mj~naadim ato `nupahataprabhaavaad
     aa`srayavi`se.sa`sokavyaak.sepaadibhi.h/   taad.r`so
     'pi hy atadanvaya`s cittavi`se.so na samarthas taa.m
     sm.rti.m bhaavayitu.m tadanvayo 'pi caanyaad.r`so na
     samarthas taa.m sm.rti.m bhaavayitum/ ubhayathaa  tu
     samartha   ity   eva.m   sm.rtir   bhavati   anyasya
     saamarthyaadar`sanaat  (Abhidharmako`sa and Bhaa.sya
     of AAcaarya Vasubandhu with Sphuutaarthaa Commentary
     of AAcaarya Ya`somitra, ed.  Dwaarikaadaas `Saastrii
     (Varanasi: Bauddha Bharati, 1981), pp. 1215-1216).

      2.   Ya`somitra,   in   his   commentary
     (Abhidharmako`savyaakhyaa) on the  rather  unhelpful
     smara.naad   eva  ca  pratyabhij~naanam   from   the
     Abhidharmako`sabhaa.sya, says: tad eveda.m yan mayaa
     d.r.s.tam iti smara.naat (ed. cit., p. 1217).