A Buddhist monk mentioned in the Majjhima Nikaya who held the view that it is the same consciousness (viññāṇa) that transmigrates from life to life — a view the Buddha explicitly rejected as a misunderstanding of dependent origination.
His mistaken view and the Buddha's correction provides a canonical account of what Buddhist rebirth does not mean — there is no permanent conscious entity that migrates; rather, a causal continuum arises and passes away moment to moment.
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