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Sanskrit word meaning existence and being From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Sanskrit word bhava (भव) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin,[1] but also habitual or emotional tendencies.[2]

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In Buddhism, bhava is the tenth of the twelve links of Pratītyasamutpāda.[3] It is the link between reincarnations.[4] In the Thai Forest Tradition, bhava is also interpreted as the habitual or emotional tendencies which leads to the arising of the sense of self, as a mental phenomenon.[5]

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In Buddhism

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In Buddhism, bhava (not bhāva, condition, nature) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin[1] experience,[4] in the sense of rebirths and redeaths, because a being is so conditioned and propelled by the karmic accumulations;[4] but also habitual or emotional tendencies.[2]

The term bhāva (भाव) is rooted in the term bhava (भव), and also has a double meaning, as emotion, sentiment, state of body or mind, disposition and character,[6] and in some context also means becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance while connoting the condition thereof.[7]

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Bhava is the tenth of the twelve links of pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination), which describes samsara, the repeated cycle of our habitual responses to sensory impressions which leads to renewed jāti, birth. Birth is usually interpreted as rebirth in one of the realms of existence, namely heaven, demi-god, human, animal, hungry ghost or hell realms (bhavacakra) of Buddhist cosmology.[4] In the Thai Forest Tradition, bhava is also interpreted as the habitual or emotional tendencies which leads to the arising of the sense of self, as a mental phenomenon.[5]

In the Jātakas, in which the Buddha didactically reminds various followers of experiences they shared with him in a past life, the hearers are said not to remember them due to bhava, i.e. to having been reborn.[8]

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In Hinduism

Bhava appears in the sense of becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance in the Vedanga literature Srauta Sutras, the Upanishads such as the Shvetashvatara Upanishad, the Mahabharata and other ancient Hindu texts.[7]

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