 While the argument about the difference between perception and love does not show that love requires previous experience, it raises, (at least) two interesting questions about the Buddhist account of the emotions: i) why does Śāntarakṣita draw a distinction between perception and feeling on the basis of the non-existence of external objects in the case of love, hatred and desire? ii) why does he make a specific argument about love and hatred when he has already argued in previous verses of the Lokāyata-parīkṣā that all cognitions require other cognitions as their causes?