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Refimprove date December 2009 Jainism In Jainism , Pudgala or IAST Pudgal stik ya is one of the six Dravya Jainism Dravya s, or aspects of reality that fabricate the world we live in. The six dravya s include the jiva and the fivefold divisions of ajiva non living category dharma motion , adharma rest , akasha space , pudgala matter and kala time . ref Sharma, Chandradhar 1960, reprint 1997 . A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy , Delhi Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 81 208 0365 5, p.63 ref Pudgala , like other dravya s except kala is called astikaya in the sense that it occupies space. Pudgala is derived from the words pud , which is defined as Supplement Addition , and gala, which is defined as Disintegrate, or Division. Therefore, Pudgalas are best defined as all things that are continuously changing by the process of Supplementation or Disintegration, namely matter. The individual unit of Pudgala is the material from which all is made, smaller than atoms, called a Param nu, which, by the process of supplementation, can combine to form what can be roughly said is an atom, called a Skandha, of which, a part is known as a Desha an electron, proton, or neutron . In Buddhism , Pudgala means the entity that reincarnates as an individual or person, i.e., the bundle of tendencies that keeps an individual reincarnating until they attain Enlightenment in Buddhism enlightenment . ref Dasgupta, Surendranath 1975, reprint 2010 . A History of Indian Philosophy , Vol.I, Delhi Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978 81 208 0412 8, p.195n ref See also Tattva Jainism Dravya Jainism Ajiva Pudgalavada Notes reflist Jainism Topics Category Jain philosophical concepts fr Pudgala zh ... more details
Vijnanakaya or Vijnanakaya sastra is one of the seven Abhidharma Sarvastivada Abhidharma Sarvastivada Abhidharma Buddhism Buddhist scriptures. Vijnanakaya means group of consciousness . It was composed by Devasarman according to both Sanskrit and China Chinese sources , with the Chinese translated by Xuanzang T26, No. 1539, , , , in 16 fascicles. Vijnanakaya is the first Abhidharma text that is not attritubted to a direct disciple of the Gautama Buddha Buddha , but written some 100 years after the Buddha s parinirvana , according to Xuanzang s disciple Puguang. Yin Shun however, concludes it was composed around the 1st century CE, and was influenced by the Jnanaprasthana , though differs in several aspects. In this regard, he likens it to the Prakaranapada , which is also a different position on the Sarvastivada as a whole. This is an esteemed Sarvastivada text wherein the Sarvastivada is upheld against Vibhajyavada objections, in the first of its six sections. It is here that the theory of sarvastivada, the existence of all dharma s through past, present and future, is first presented ref Vij na k ya stra T26n1539 p0531a27 ref . Interestingly, the issue is only brought up when Moggaliputta tissa makes the standard claim of the Vibhajyavada, past and future dharma s do not exist, only present and unconditioned dharmas do exist . The Vijnana kaya has four main theses to refute this The impossibility of two simultaneous citta s The impossibility of karma and vipaka being simultaneous That vijnana only arises with an object Attainments are not necessarily present. In addition to refuting the Vibhajyavada view, the second section is a refutation of the Vatsiputriya Pudgalavada claim of the paramartha of the arya truths can be attained, can be realized by the pudgala , present and complete, therefore it is certainly the case that the pudgala exists ref Vij na k ya stra T26n1539 p0537b03 ref . The Sarvastivada take the title Shunyata Sunyav ... more details
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