Reply To: external influence

A heartfelt greetings to everyone ! I wanted to add a link to Ven. Lal Sir’s answer. Gandhabba or Manomaya Kaya is an important concept in Buddha Dhamma. So it…

Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa

Embodied: Is there then no ‘gathi or asava’ in the 29 realms other than the human and animal ones? – for in those 29 realms there is no gandhabba. So…

Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa

gandhabba that is using this very body to type’,saying that you cannot be ONLY the gandhabba, for that will not be there when you are in the higher realms. Do…

Buddha Dhamma for an Inquiring Mind – Part I

…shells.” It is the mental body (called “gandhabba“) where all thoughts (i.e., saṅkhāra) arise, thereby controlling the physical body. That is why, in many confirmed out-of-body Experiences (OBEs), the body…

Reply To: micca ditthi

…This paralowa or the “nether world” is the world of gandhabbas. Even many Theravadins today do not believe that gandhabba concept is correct: “Hidden World of the Gandhabba: Netherworld (Paralowa)“….

Reply To: With or Without Origin

…how the gandhabba(s) come into all of this. Yes, we are one, but I do not see the rest of it with the gandhabba as the connection. Metta y not…