A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…didn’t specifically mention about “Gandhabba” but he was provided passages from various early suttas and NDE/OBE accounts or other various sources that clearly hint about a process or a journey…
…be born in any realm and thus will remain in the gandhabba state until the kammic energy runs out. This is called antarāparinibbāna (“Parinibbāna in between realms”). This was discussed…
Hi Tien, Yes. The death of the physical body is not the end of a human being. The “mental body” or the gandhabba comes out and waits for another womb….
…body dies and the gandhabba separates from it. – But I do not recall “direct accounts” in the Tipitaka about devas or brahmas attaining Parinibbana upon attaining the Arahanthood. However,…
…to Gandhabba Transformations” “Manomaya Kaya and Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)” “Gandhabba State – Evidence from Tipiṭaka” There could be more relevant posts. I just remember those offhand. – It would be…
…of our bodies started with just a single cell (zygote), and it became alive only when a gandhabba (or paṭisandhi viññāna) “descended to the womb” and merged with that single…
…in the past with a “viññāna” has now led to a gandhabba (with pasada rupa and hadaya vatthu) for a new existence. – That kammic energy (E), corresponding to that…
…captured by the eyes, processed by the brain, and that signal is sent to the cakkhu pasada rupa (which is part of the gandhabba). This “picture” is what is seen…
…“dh” sound: Dhamma, adhamma, dhātu, gandha, gandhabba, middha, nirōdha, saddhā, andha, sandhi, sādhu, paṭisandhi, samādhi. Both the unaspirated and the aspirated sounds are in words, Dhammapada (ධම්මපද in Sinhala) and…
…That cakkhu pasāda rūpa (or simply cakkhu) is part of the gandhabba, our “mental body.” The gandhabba has the seat of the mind (hadaya vatthu), surrounded by the five pasāda…