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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…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
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…
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…
…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…
…in space, with the gandhabba body? In my case, I am positive that did not happen. I could open my eyes and see that I was in my room. Then…
…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…
…rebirth process or the gandhabba concept is wrong; see “Micca Diṭṭhi, Gandhabba, and Sotāpanna Stage.” If one has the above views, one cannot comprehend the dukkha nature. The fact that…
…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)“….
…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…
Thank you Lal for the excellent explanation. So, essentially, once in the Gandhabba state, the thoughts (good or bad) of any human beings towards the life that he/she led do…
…the death of an Anāgāmi, the gandhabba comes out, undergoes cuti, but CAN grasp a bhava in the rūpāvacara brahma realms reserved for the Anāgāmis.’ The question is why ‘can’…