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Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa

…see, “Manomaya Kaya (Gandhabba) and the Physical Body“. There is a key reason why only the “trija kaya” of a human/animal has a special name of gandhabba. The word gandhabba…

Reply To: Gandhabba and Cloning

…the natural process, some gandhabbas will not survive to be a full animal and exit in the womb itself?” It is not a matter of just gandhabba surviving. It is…

Reply To: Gandhabba memory capabilities

Hello oetb, OK. I see that you have a fairly good idea about gandhabba. Regarding: “Being joined with a dense body, I am not sure why (I’ll ask in another…

Kammic Energy Leads to Consciousness

…Gandhabba Concept.” A gandhabba must enter a womb and make a physical body to experience “close sensory contacts” of taste, smell, and touch. That process is described in “Buddhist Explanations…

Jāti – Different Types of Births

…them. That gandhabba then stays for the duration of human existence (bhava.) 7. That gandhabba is periodically pulled into a womb by kammic energy to be “born with a physical…

Reply To: Posts Related to “Distorted Saññā”

I think the issue is understanding how the gandhabba (mental body) trapped inside the physical body experiences the external world. That must be understood before understanding how gandhabba recognizes things…

Reply To: Quantum Immortality: The Missing Element?

…novel framework in which the Buddhist concept of Gandhabba serves as a subtle or intermediate quantum-consciousness “carrier,” bridging the theoretical gap between standard Quantum Immortality scenarios and the continuity of…

Reply To: The Gandhabba and Dementia

…before being sent to the mental body (gandhabba). We can think of the gandhabba being trapped inside the physical body. It is completely shielded from the external world by the…