Gandhabba State – Evidence from Tipiṭaka

…other posts on the site. There are two subsections of the gandhabba state: “Mental Body – Gandhabba” and “Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya).” One can also use the “Search” box on the…

Our Mental Body – Gandhabba

(gandhabba). A human gandhabba born at the cuti-patisandhi moment can live for hundreds to thousands of years. Within a given “human bhava,” there can be many repeated births as a…

Antarābhava and Gandhabba

…the “mental body” or the manōmaya kāya of the gandhabba. There is a whole section on the gandhabba at this site; see “Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya).” As explained in the post,…

Manomaya Kaya (Gandhabba) and the Physical Body

…more like a “misty ghost”). The fine body of the gandhabba “overlaps” the physical body (solid or coarse versus that fine gandhabba body.) The gandhabba makes the physical body “alive.”…

Gandhabba – Only in Human and Animal Realms

…concept of gandhabba are in this series. More are scattered throughout the site, especially in the “Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya)” section. These posts discuss how a living-being goes through rebirths without…

Does Gandhabba Mean “Semen”?

…human gandhabba (manomaya kāya) which could be many thousands of years. That gandhabba may be born with many such physical bodies within its lifetime. Between “two consecutive human bodies,” that…

Abnormal Births Due to Gandhabba Transformations

“Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya).” Of course, gandhabba is NOT a Mahāyāna concept, see “Gandhabba State – Evidence from Tipiṭaka,” and without that, there will be many inconsistencies, including the observed fact…