To its distinctive features of abruptness and momentariness is due the epithet "convulsive" habitually assigned it, but the qualification is not secure.
He can hardly be guilty, then, in the immediate context, of proceeding to identify the momentariness of the event with the momentariness of the object.
And, further, the doctrine of general momentariness would thus be given up.
For the following reason also the origination of the world cannot be accounted for on the view of the momentariness of all existence.
This theory of a universal Nothing is the real purport of Sugata's doctrine; the theories of the momentariness of all existence, &c.
The two reasons again which were said to prove the momentariness of jars are invalid because they may be made to prove just the contrary of what they are alleged to prove.
And should it be said that (this is not so, but that) momentariness remains, it would follow that the connexion of the sense-organ with the object and the cognition are simultaneous.
The momentariness of jars and the like is proved by Perception as well as Inference.
The capacity of producing effects can in fact be used only to prove non-momentariness on the part of jars, and so on; for as things perishing within a moment are not capable of acting, they are not capable of producing effects.
But to such a logical extreme did the Buddhists carry these doctrines that they ended in formulating the doctrine of absolute momentariness [Footnote ref 2].
The Doctrine of Momentariness and the Doctrine of Causal Efficiency (Arthakriyâkâritva).
The only Buddhist account available of the doctrine of momentariness is from the pen of Ratnakîrtti.
This definition of existence naturally brings in the doctrine of momentariness shown by Ratnakîrtti.
Footnote 2: Historically the doctrine of momentariness is probably prior to the doctrine of arthakriyâkâritva.
But the later Buddhists sought to prove that momentariness was the logical result of the doctrine of arthakriyâkâritva.
Another objection raised against the doctrine of momentariness is this, that a cause (e.
The doctrine of momentariness ought to be a direct corollary of the Buddhist metaphysics.
Of these points of view, the momentariness of fleeting things, blue and so forth (i.
It could not be the former, because your alleged momentariness is not always directly visible in the cloud, and consequently, as your example is not an ascertained fact, your supposed inference falls to the ground.
The rendering of muscle, supple and strong under the living epidermis, the glow of the flesh, the dramatic momentariness of the whole, have not been surpassed even by Titian.
The composition, lacking in its unusual momentariness the repose and dignity of Raphael's Leo X.
