Any historical evidence you can provide to that "Vibhajjavada" is the schismatic group?I am more like a person who lived at the beginning of Buddha's dispensation.
Care to share any idea? since you claimed that you are like a person " lived at the beginning of Buddha's Dispensation".
*Btw, the term "Vibhajjavada" was coined by Arahant Moggaliputta Tissa Thera when he was dealing with Sassataditthi and Ucchedaditthi, which occurred in many schools of Buddhism (those which modern scholars used to call 'Early Buddhism') of his time.*
Now, the Third Sangayana Council was presided by Arahant Moggaliputta Tissa Thera and 1000 Arahants completed with Patisambhidā and Chalabiññā. Since you are rejecting Vibhajjavada and you called it "degenerated", are you rejecting these Arahants too?
And you also wrote
No, Vibhajjavada (upholder of Pāli Tipitaka) don't say like that.For the Vibajjavadins too, rupa in Nama-rupa of DO is physical.
In Paṭiccasamuppāda sutta, "Rupa" was defined as "The four great elements and the form derived from the four great elements: this is called form."
In Visuddhimagga, "Rupa" was defined as:
"35. Herein (a) primary materiality is of four kinds as the earth element, water element, fire element, and air element. Their characteristic, function, and manifestation have been given under the definition of the four elements (XI.87, 93); but as to the proximate cause, each has the other three as its proximate cause.
36. (b) Derived materiality is of twenty-four kinds as eye, ear, nose, tongue, body , visible datum, sound, odour, flavour; femininity faculty , masculinity faculty , life faculty , heart-basis; bodily intimation, verbal intimation; space element; lightness of matter, malleability of matter, wieldiness of matter, growth of matter, continuity of matter, ageing of matter, impermanence of matter, and physical nutriment."