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…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…
A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…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…
Consciousness ARISE in the mental body (manomaya kaya or gandhabba for humans and animals.) The gandhabba is the essential part, not the physical body. – When one gets a human…
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…
…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…
…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…
…look at the questions raised by Christian. 4. The main question was: How do we understand how a gandhabba instantly transforms into a different realm? Why doesn’t it happen when…
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…
…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…
…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…
…body. They pass down the sensory inputs to the five pasada rūpa located in the gandhabba or the manōmaya kāya, which overlaps our physical body); see “Gandhabba (Manomaya Kaya).” By…