The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (2622 page)

a and with the all-pervading
Vi
u
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Vasumitra
.

Teacher of the
Sarv
stiv
da
school of Buddhism who put forward a thesis to defend the school's basic tenet that entities (
dharma
) exist in the past and future as well as in the present. According to Vasumitra, dharmas exist in a noumenal or latent condition in the future until they attain their moment of causal efficacy (
karitra
) in the present. This marks their entry into a functional relationship with other phenomena. When this moment is past they once again enter into a noumenal mode which is now described as ‘past’.

 
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