A chair (or pen) cannot be located in any of its parts (armrests, legs, etc.), nor in their collection, nor in any spatiotemporal region; yet conventionally the chair exists; this illustrates that the chair exists only through conceptual imputation on a suitable material basis, not as an independently locatable entity.
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Geshe LhakdorEvidence Quote
“the chair of course conventionally there is a chair there right which is has particular properties of being hard and suitable to sit on et cetera et cetera but actually if you look for it it's not in in the arm rests it's not in the individual parts it's not in the collection [20:50]”
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What is the nature of our reality? Carlo Rovelli & Geshe Tenzin Namdak on Quantum Physics & Buddhism— Science & Wisdom LIVECreated: 8/11/2026, 7:53:38 AM
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