Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c36.92

v2.c36.92

The next question of the Th. is whether *puggala* is constituted (*saṃkhata*) or unconstituted or neither constituted nor unconstituted (*n'eva saṃkhato nāsaṃkhato*). The Sam. affirm the last alternative but would not treat *puggala* as something apart (*añño*) from the *saṃkhata-khandhas*. They state that the *puggala* has certain aspects of *saṃkhata*, e.g., it is subject to *sukha*, *dukkha*, and so forth; again it has certain aspects of *asaṃkhata*, e.g., it is not subject to birth, old age and death (*jāti, jarā*, and *maraṇa*).