What do you think of those who say there's nothing after the end of namarupa?

[Paññādhammika]

@RobertK

Dhammakaya and Thanissaro have an eternalistic position at odds with Theravada (I think you are saying that?).

Yes.

Help for responding to people who say: Buddha never said there's nothing after parinibbana

Any sutta, commentaries, subcommentaries or contemporary books, lectures etc to help support the claim that there’s nothing after parinibbana? To be clear, I am sidestepping the 4 unanswered questions of whether the Buddha exist or not etc after death. Because it is known that the question is invalid due to assuming a self in Buddha by the questioner. The question which can be validly asked is whether there is something or nothing after parinibbana. Some thai ajahns thinks there’s something a…

I am pretty confident that I have the same view as classical Theravada from the post I created some time ago. And from listening to B. Bodhi, he totally is trying to find something after parinibbāna. He knows it cannot be 5 aggregates or 6 sense bases, but still trying to find something which is not totally no experience like what he thinks the atheist version of eternal death is. He said, if parinibbāna is really like the atheist conception of death, then the Christian wins.

So he used Nibbāna element itself as the name for that something which is after parinibbāna. Somehow consciousness transforms into this to give eternal experience of nibbāna or something like that.