Antara Parinibbana

…Antara Parinibbāna state. The gandhabba would still survive the death of the body and come out and stay alive until the kammic energy for the human bhava is exhausted, at…

Reply To: Gandhabba and Cloning

…distinguish between a gandhabba and a living being, as a gandhabba enters into (an already- existing) being – which is and has been my core question: namely, what is the…

Reply To: Body, Gandhabba & vice-versa

…Since the mind and “brain” are two different things, given the brain is not functioning anymore but the heart is still beating, I am assuming that the Gandhabba is essentially…

Reply To: Jhana Words

…human, because at death it becomes inert and the gandhabba comes out. So, is gandhabba the “person”? But a gandhabba essentially has a hadaya vatthu and five pasada rupa, where…

Reply To: Recycled Substance

…energy to keep the gandhabba in existence, what is?” – The physical body of the Arahant (and the gandhabba within that body) arose due to a past kamma (i.e., a…