On sakkāya, identity, and substantial reality

[Vaddha]

Just briefly returning to this.

@sujato

And most strikingly, they show that kāya in such contexts does not mean “body”, but rather “place of rebirth”

From Ven. Sujato’s discussion of SN 44.9, we see that kāya is used by itself as a term for a realm or state of existence. I wonder if this may be related to ‘sakkāya.’