Dear Mike
welcome to the forum!
You might be interested in this letter Ven. Bodhi wrote to sarah about this some time back:
https://groups.io/g/dsg/message/25734
10/10/03 #25734
B.Bodhi:
My paper on “Aggregates and Clinging Aggregates” was published in a
defunct journal, The Pali Buddhist Review, in c. 1976. I don’t have a copy
of the paper. My basic argument there was: (1) the only sutta that
explicitly distinguishes between khandhas and upadaanakkhandhas is SN 22:
48. There the latter are defined in the same way as the former except
that they are each said to be ‘saasava upaadaaniya’ (“with taints, subject
to clinging”). It would follow that there must then be aggregates that are
anaasava anupaadaaniya (without taints, not subject to clinging).
Intuitively, these would seem to be the aggregates of the arahant.
However, no such statement can be found in the Nikayas. I then turned to
the Dhammasangani enumeration of ‘saasava dhammas’ and ‘anaasava dhammas’,
and ‘upaadaaniya dhammas’ and ‘na upaadaaniya dhammas’. I found that Dhs
classifies the arahant’s ordinary cittas and cetasikas under ‘saasava’ and
‘upaadaaniya’. The only khandhas considered ‘anaasava’ and 'na
upaadaaniya’ are the mental khandhas (cittas and cetasikas) of the four
maggas and phalas. All rupas are tainted and subject to clinging. I then
went on to explore the significance of this for an understanding of the
Dhamma; but without the paper I can’t recapitulate what I wrote over 25
years ago. The old “Pali Buddhist Review” subsequently merged with another
scholarly journal to become the “Buddhist Studies Review”. If you can
track this down on the web, perhaps they have back issues available and
you can find that article. Or perhaps the paper itself is on the web. Just
look for the above title.<
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