Abhidharma And Jainism

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Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
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the earthly body (specification for the different kinds of beings). Each of these bandhas arises with the appearance (udaya) of the karman of the same name. ... The same questions regarding the bodies of transformation and transposition, the fiery body and the karmic body." This means, as becomes clear from the text, that the junction that gives rise to the earthly body arises with the appearance of the karma called oraliyasayirappaoga Cordliyasartrappangrandma kommal, and similarly for the other junctions. The particles concerned are attracted by the soul, and fill up the space it occupies.
The net result of this way of conceptualising soul and body (or rather: bodies) combined is much closer to the Buddhist notion of the pudgala than the Jaina concept of the soul by itself. All functions, both bodily and mental/ spiritual, are in this way united in the space of the body, as they are in the case of the Buddhist pudgala.
The assumption that the Jainas adopted their body-sized soul and the exis. tence of aggregates in response and opposition to Buddhist Abhidharma has the advantage of explaining why they accepted these beliefs, and why they accepted both of them together. We have already seen that chronology constitutes no obstacle to this assumption. The Buddhist theory of momentari ness, which may not have come into existence before the second century B.C. E, is already known to the Suyagada, as is the notion of the Buddhist pudgala. The Buddhist theory of momentariness was but one aspect of the tendency, which initially may have been strongest in the Sarvāstivāda school, to reject the existence of all composite objects, whether extended in space or in time The Buddhist notion of the person as a composite entity dates at least from that same period, and therefore pre-dates, as far as we can tell, the Jaina notion of a body-sized soul.
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