Āhāra – Food for the Mental Body

…Mental Body (Gandhabba) Is Primary 15. As we have discussed, the physical body is just a shell controlled by the mental body (gandhabba). See “Manomaya Kaya (Gandhabba) and the Physical…

Gandhabba, Rebirth: Time

…read somewhere within this forum, that gandhabba is smaller than an atom, which leads me to wonder about the implications of the “musical” connection with the word gandhabba in the…

Mind and Matter – Buddhist Analysis

…impossible to see a Brahma, it is impossible to see a gandhabba. A gandhabba is almost like a Brahma but with a full set of pasāda rupa. After being created…

Near-Death Experiences (NDE): Brain Is Not the Mind

…for Rebirth.” Instead, the brain helps in recalling memories (from viññāṇa dhātu) while the gandhabba is inside the body; see “Brain and the Gandhabba.” More details in “Buddha Dhamma –…