To spin Buddhism as a way to win is funny to me. It simply isn't defensible by reading primary Buddhist texts. 1/
I thought that this applies to an arhat for the rest of his/her life, and then when the body dies it's the end of experience for good.
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There's no consensus even on this. The Encyclopedia of Buddhism commissioned by gvmt of Sri Lanka traces accretions to the definition of arahatship from the earliest Buddhists. Initially, arahats were those who could see the changing nature of experience. Hagiography came later.
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Extinguished out like a flame. However, this may not have meant "vanished" in Pali or whatever as this wording goes towards how they thought about "fire" verses "fire that is fueled" in Ancient India. You can't just stop fire (the phenomenon of) . Only remove the fuel.
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