Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.70

v2.c36.70

The Th. now proceed to examine the paññatti (description) of puggala. In answer to the question whether the puggala of the Rūpadhātu is rūpī and likewise of the Kāmadhātu is kāmī and of the Arūpadhātu, arūpī, the Sam. affirm the first and the third but not the second. The Sam. argue that puggala = satta = jīva and kāya = sarīra. Though they do not admit either the identity of, or difference between, jīva and sarīra, they hold, though not logically tenable, that kāya must be different from puggala as there are such statements as ‘so kāye kāyānupassī viharati and so forth’, in which so cannot but refer to puggala.