A Quest to Recover Buddha's True Teachings
…https://puredhamma.net/abhidhamma/gandhabbaya-manomaya-kaya/manomaya-kaya-gandhabba-and-the-physical-body/ While I was in Jhana, was able to see how the manomaya kaya comes out and how it moves around in search of new body, how the gati picks…
When a zygote is impregnated with a gandhabba, any effort from this point forward to terminate life, is it considered as committing panatipata? For example a husband for some reason…
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…
…doubts. I’ll post my doubts in two entries. I have read that the gandhabba cannot bear the energy of the arahant. So what happens to the gandhabba when the ordinary…
This post was by Marina: Related to my previous post, How are Gandhabbas born and how do they deplete their karmic energy? Why do only humans and animals have gandhabba?…
…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…