Is there "rebirth" without self-view ???

[Ontheway]

As provided above, the Mahavihāravāsin analysis is that of the answers being in the future tense. This chimes well with other suttas, where freedom from all dukkha is only at the end of life (for rebirth has stopped). Two parallels were given. The first is likely of Mahāsāṃghika origin, the other from the Sarvāstivāda. The Mahāsāṃghika tended to favour a more transcendental Buddha, which would help to explain their version of this sutta. The Sarvāstivādins, as far as I'm aware, did not however given that Theravāda is well known for it's near obsession with textual analysis and precision, the Theravādin sutta comes out as the most favourable one. Combined with the commentary, this exchange likely referred to future lives.

Does that mean you believe the Buddha was still a being at the time of that conversation?

Conventionally he was a human being, yes. A being is always a convention, never an ultimate reality.

The "Buddha" is a designation in Theravāda. While we use the term in daily conversation, still, it is merely a conventional concept and never a ultimate reality. To insist "Buddha" is real and as ultimate reality, and be vanished by attaining Nibbana, is Ucchedaditthi.

"How do you construe this, my friend Yamaka: Do you regard form as the Tathagata?"

"No, my friend."

"Do you regard feeling as the Tathagata?"

"No, my friend."

"Do you regard perception as the Tathagata?"

"No, my friend."

"Do you regard fabrications as the Tathagata?"

"No, my friend."

"Do you regard consciousness as the Tathagata?"

"No, my friend."

"What do you think: Do you regard the Tathagata as being in form?... Elsewhere than form?... In feeling?... Elsewhere than feeling?... In perception?... Elsewhere than perception?... In fabrications?... Elsewhere than fabrications?... In consciousness?... Elsewhere than consciousness?"

"No, my friend."

"What do you think: Do you regard the Tathagata as form-feeling-perception-fabrications-consciousness?"

"No, my friend."

"Do you regard the Tathagata as that which is without form, without feeling, without perception, without fabrications, without consciousness?"

"No, my friend."

"And so, my friend Yamaka — when you can't pin down the Tathagata as a truth or reality even in the present life — is it proper for you to declare, 'As I understand the Teaching explained by the Blessed One, a monk with no more effluents, on the break-up of the body, is annihilated, perishes, & does not exist after death'?"

"Previously, my friend Sariputta, I did foolishly hold that evil supposition. But now, having heard your explanation of the Dhamma, I have abandoned that evil supposition, and have broken through to the Dhamma."

"Then, friend Yamaka, how would you answer if you are thus asked: A monk, a worthy one, with no more mental effluents: what is he on the break-up of the body, after death?"

"Thus asked, I would answer, 'Form is inconstant... Feeling... Perception... Fabrications... Consciousness is inconstant. That which is inconstant is stressful. That which is stressful has ceased and gone to its end."

"Very good, my friend Yamaka. Very good.

Yamaka Suttanta

[asahi]

The five aggregates vanished not the Buddha (ie . mind state without defilements of Gotama while still alive) .

[Alex123]

So, which realm of existence, keeping in mind he said the following?

Just as, mendicants, even a tiny bit of fecal matter still stinks, so too I don’t approve of even a tiny bit of continued existence, not even as long as a finger-snap.”

Metta,
Paul.

Physically he was in our realm.
Mentally, or spiritually if you will, he was in nibbana-with-remainder.

[auto]

The "Buddha" is a designation in Theravāda. While we use the term in daily conversation, still, it is merely a conventional concept and never a ultimate reality.

Same could be said towards chicken and egg too, just designations. What's your point? you can see egg.
Do you claim buddha has no form?

An educated noble disciple has seen the noble ones,

This Sutta excerpt implies that the Realized one's reincarnation body is seen by gods and humans

The Realized One’s body remains, but his attachment to rebirth has been cut off.
Ucchinnabhavanettiko, bhikkhave, tathāgatassa kāyo tiṭṭhati.
As long as his body remains he will be seen by gods and humans.
Yāvassa kāyo ṭhassati, tāva naṁ dakkhanti devamanussā.

Why would reality of an enlightened beings entail their annihilations at the attainment of nibbana? sounds like misconception. I wonder if that what means misconception, its just baseless argument, gotten out of thin air.

To insist "Buddha" is real and as ultimate reality, and be vanished by attaining Nibbana, is Ucchedaditthi.