nontheistic account of the same process: craving leads to rebirth and the stopping of craving results in liberation from rebirth. Although Buddhists use the term taṇhā (craving) rather than kāma (desire), kāma is nonetheless one of the three kinds of taṇhā described in The First Discourse. Kāmataṇhā refers to the cravings of sensual desire, while bhavataṇhā has to do with the narcissistic longing to persist, and vibhavataṇhā, the self-disgusted longing for oblivioṇ Yet if we consider what is probably an earlier version of the link theory of conditioned arising, found in the Sutta-Nipāta
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