A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
“What person X experiences is experienced by X’s gandhabba (mental body).” That which makes experiencing possible is the gandhabba,not the reverse. Otherwise one’s body wouldn’t perish once the gandhabba leaves…
They are both called karaja kaya. However, karaja kaya of a gandhabba is MUCH FINER. A normal human cannot see a gandhabba. When a gandhabba enters a womb, it sheds…
…get tried and hungry, and would need more food to continue. It is amazing to see, how a gandhabba (mental body) that is smaller than a single cell in the…
…distances without eyes/ears. See, “Body Types in 31 Realms – Importance of Manomaya Kaya“. – However, gandhabba can “absorb” scents and can get a bit denser. The word gandhabba comes…
…that LIVING ENTITY is not the physical body but the mental body. That “mental body” is alternatively called a manōmaya kāya or gandhabba. It consists of a hadaya vatthu (seat…
Lang asked, “Is this gandhabba the same word used in a different context? Or is it just mistranslated into “musician”.” It is definitely not correct to say a gandhabba is…
Hi All, Samyutta Nikāya 31 is called gandhabba-samyutta. It deals with ‘deva’s of the gandhabba order‘. About them it is said in the first sutta of this part of the…
…the communication with the gandhabba? So what would be the closest thing in Buddha Dhamma that resembles “consciousness” in science? This also made me thinking… I read that the gandhabba…
…wondering if this timescale of the gandhabba entering the womb really is a few days or might even be longer. Although i do not question the experience of the woman,…
…some such capabilities, but unfortunately, we have lost that resource. By the way, evidence for the gandhabba from the Tipiṭaka is discussed in “Gandhabba State – Evidence from Tipiṭaka.” Other…