/lit/ - Literature

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It's a major problem. Because Buddhism denies personhood, reducing the self through dependent origination to a bundle of simples (which in turn are found to be nothingness) there is nothing for karma to attach to over a cycle of rebirths. The bundle self loses its dependently arisen attributes upon death, and there can be no continuity in rebirth because there is no substantial "basket" or "vehicle" to ground or hold attributes for the next incarnated self, who of course is just another bundle of dependently arisen attributes.

One school of Buddhism developed a philsophy of personalism to resolve the problem and recreate a de facto atman/soul/self, on Buddhism terms a "pudga", for karma to attach to and ground itself to to make the system work. They were reasonably succesful in India but never spread outside and died off to the Islamic invasions and resurgent Hinduism, leaving the missionary non-personalists dominant.

https://iep.utm.edu/pudgalav/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudgalavada