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(1981) The philosophy of Buddhism, Dordrecht, Springer.
The function is the 'self-manifesting" activity of the essence or substance. In the terminology of the "Awakening of Faith" the function is also called the "permeation" (hsün-hsi; Jap: kunjū). As such it represents universal action which consequently must be considered as primordial karma. The givenness of a universal, primordial "agency" was assumed by the previous pre-totalistic doctrine of causation, but not dialectically accounted for.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-8186-7_7
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Verdu, A. (1981). The "totality" of the function, in The philosophy of Buddhism, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 51-56.
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