It's equivalent in many ways and very easy to see how terms like 'subtle body' could have arisen.Coëmgenu wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 7:24 amNope. "Body" in the nominative followed by "body" in the locative does not mean "subtle body." The word does not exist in the Pāli Canon. It also doesn't exist in the non-Theravādin EBTs, the Mahāyāna sūtras, or the Tantras.Cause_and_Effect wrote: ↑Mon Aug 01, 2022 5:45 amLuckily it exists in the Pali Canon as an equivalent, the breath body or breath energy body - "body among the bodies" in anapanasati sutta.
It's not something that simple analysis of Pali grammar is going to reveal, it's the context of the entire sutta, the practice itself and experience, and the many jhana similes.
This is essentially the problem with the hardline pseudoacademic discourse you are persuing that often misses the wood for the trees.