What is the 3 lifetimes interpretation of the 12 nidanas?

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Here is an excerpt from the source of the three life-times interpretation:

287. The past, the present and the future are its three times. Of these, it should be understood that, according to what is given as such in the texts, the two factors ignorance and formations belong to the past time, the eight beginning with consciousness belong to the present time, and the two, birth and ageing-and-death, belong to the future time.
-The Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga), p.600

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