Reply To: Arahanthood, Bhikkhu(ni) and death
…body dies and the gandhabba separates from it. – But I do not recall “direct accounts” in the Tipitaka about devas or brahmas attaining Parinibbana upon attaining the Arahanthood. However,…
Search Results for: gandhabba
Reply To: Video collection for correcting Wrong Views
…to Gandhabba Transformations” “Manomaya Kaya and Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)” “Gandhabba State – Evidence from Tipiṭaka” There could be more relevant posts. I just remember those offhand. – It would be…
Origin of Life – There is No Traceable Origin
…of our bodies started with just a single cell (zygote), and it became alive only when a gandhabba (or paṭisandhi viññāna) “descended to the womb” and merged with that single…
Reply To: Living Cell – How Did the First Cell Come to Existence?
…in the past with a “viññāna” has now led to a gandhabba (with pasada rupa and hadaya vatthu) for a new existence. – That kammic energy (E), corresponding to that…
Reply To: Post on “Does any Object (Rupa) Last only 17 Thought Moments?”
…captured by the eyes, processed by the brain, and that signal is sent to the cakkhu pasada rupa (which is part of the gandhabba). This “picture” is what is seen…
“Tipiṭaka English” Convention Adopted by Early European Scholars – Part 2
…“dh” sound: Dhamma, adhamma, dhātu, gandha, gandhabba, middha, nirōdha, saddhā, andha, sandhi, sādhu, paṭisandhi, samādhi. Both the unaspirated and the aspirated sounds are in words, Dhammapada (ධම්මපද in Sinhala) and…
Vision Is a Series of “Snapshots” – Movie Analogy
…That cakkhu pasāda rūpa (or simply cakkhu) is part of the gandhabba, our “mental body.” The gandhabba has the seat of the mind (hadaya vatthu), surrounded by the five pasāda…
Reply To: gandhabba as explained elsewhere
From the Concise Pali-English Dictionary by A.P. Buddhadatta Mahathera there are two meanings for gandhabba: gandhabba :[m.] 1. a musician; a heavenly musician belonging to the demigods; 2. a being…
Reply To: Where is the Mana Indriya located in the Brain?
…i understand it correctly, that when there is no mana indriya in a gandhabba that has left the body, there are also no memories in this gandhabba? Or are only…
Kamma, Saṅkhāra, and Abhisaṅkhāra – What Is “Intention”?
…Analogy 7. The seat of the mind (hadaya vatthu) is where thoughts arise. The hadaya vatthu is part of the manōmaya kāya, mental body, or the gandhabba. The hadaya vatthu…