ABSTRACT
This chapter illustrates how the four models are deployed by Buddhists. The Ch'eng wei-shih lun shows, the models were often deftly interleaved rather than treated in pristine isolation. The aim of Early Buddhists was to eliminate the āsavas by undergoing a cognitive shutdown that consequently 'cleansed' the senses. The shutdown of cognitive functioning, had been the penultimate achievement of the marga, was now separated into two distinct types of 'attainments': one disparaged as the vain pursuit of nonBuddhists; and other nirodha-samāpatti was condoned. In contrast to āsaṁjñī samāpatti, nirodha-samāpatti is cultivated only by āryas, not Pṛthagjanas. It is always kuśala, never akuśala or neutral. Pṛtagjanas are prevented from attaining it by their fear that it would lead to their utter annihilation, and because it only arises through the practice of the Mārga. Yogācāra accounts of nirodha-samāpatti arose at the tail end of a rich, minutely detailed discussion between abhidharmic schools, including the Vaibhāṣikas, Mahīśasikas, and so on.
