How Long Is a Lifetime?: Buddhadasa’s and Phra Payutto’s Interpretations of Paṭiccasamuppāda in Comparison

In a lecture which he gave in his monastery on the 12th of June 1971,
Buddhadāsa criticised this Three Lifetimes Theory with sharp words.
He compared this
presentation of paṭiccasamuppāda with ‘cancer, an incurable tumour of
Buddhist scholarship’.