Search Results for: gandhabba

Reply To: Gandhabba Timespan

Lang asked: “I’m assuming that a gandhabba can stay in the gandhabba form for thousands of year straight, without birth (jati) as a human with a physical body.” – Yes….

Reply To: Hadaya vatthu in asanna realm

“This blood-dependency is in contradiction to the Gandhabba idea, I think. I think it is due to commentary?” Gandhabba (at the moment of patisandhi) is just a few suddhatthaka. How…

Reply To: Tirokudda Sutta

Thank you, Lal. A good and clear post. One follow-up question: A bhava in hell does not start with Gandhabba, but always with a birth moment in a hell body?…

Reply To: Utuja kaya of Gandhabba

If the Gandhabba is not embodied, there are no “bodily” sensations? I mean, there are no sensations generated through utuja kaya and impinging on “kaya pasada rupa”? Or, alternatively, if…

Reply To: Evolution and Gandhabba

I watched the video and the evidence is compelling. Daniel wrote: “Since we know from the Buddha’s Agañña Sutta, that the human gandhabba (or human bhava) is existing for much…

Reply To: Split Reincarnation

…The Gandhabba of the baby left already, but another Gandhabba of a man who died in a nearby village was advised to “seek shelter” (by another spirit) in the dying…

Reply To: Split Reincarnation

…at a given time. 2. It is possible for a gandhabba to come out of a womb, and for another gandhabba to take possession of that zygote in the womb….

Reply To: Split Reincarnation

…was 29 years old. As such, the lifetimes of Cary and Parkhurst overlapped by 29 years. – That is not possible. How can the same gandhabba live in two different…

Attachment to Things with Dukkha Lakkhana Leads to Dukkha

…human births. Here, “pubbe” means “previous,” “nivasa” means “house,” and “anussati” means “recall,” i.e., the knowledge to recall successive residences of a given gandhabba. In a given human bhava, a…