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,…

Origin of Life – One Creates One’s Own Future Lives

Gandhabba Concept.” That gandhabba then gives rise to a fully-grown human, as explained in the two posts, “Buddhist Explanations of Conception, Abortion, and Contraception” and “Cloning and Gandhabba.” 4. There…

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…