 Although later Gelukpa authors, who take causality and the time-gap problem it involves seriously, adopt the causation model, they mostly preserve Chapa’s typology, together with the identification of apprehended object and appearing object. This leaves them in a difficult situation as they adopt a typology of objects that precisely avoids a model in which the object grasped by cognition would be different from the object that appears to it. Their solution is to invoke the notion of “aspect”: a cognition caused by an object takes a form similar to its cause. This aspectualism differs from a representationalist view in that it does not involve, strictly speaking, a representation which would stand as a curtain between cognition and the object. Cognition still cognizes its object directly by taking its aspect.