The Sanskrit word bhava (भव) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin,[1] but also habitual or emotional tendencies.[2]
| Translations of भव | |
|---|---|
| English | being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin;[1] habitual or emotional tendencies.[2] |
| Sanskrit | भव (IAST: bhava) |
| Pali | भव (bhava) |
| Vietnamese | hữu |
| Glossary of Buddhism | |
| Translations of भाव | |
|---|---|
| English | feeling, emotion, mood, becoming |
| Sanskrit | भाव (IAST: bhāva) |
| Pali | भाव (bhāva) |
| Burmese | ဘာဝ (MLCTS: bàwa̰) |
| Khmer | ភព (phob) or ភាវៈ (phiaveak) |
| Mon | ဘာဝ ([həwɛ̀ʔ]) |
| Sinhala | භව or භවය |
| Thai | ภวะ (RTGS: phawa) or ภาวะ (RTGS: phawa) |
| Glossary of Buddhism | |
In Buddhism, bhava is the tenth of the twelve links of Pratītyasamutpāda.[3] It is the link between reincarnation.[4] In Thai Buddhism, bhava is also interpreted as habitual or emotional tendencies which leads to the arising of the sense of self, as a mental phenomenon.[citation needed]
In Buddhism
editIn 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,[5] and in some context also means becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance while connoting the condition thereof.[6]
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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 Thai Buddhism, bhava is also interpreted as the habitual or emotional tendencies which leads to the arising of the sense of self, as a mental phenomenon.[citation needed]
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.[7]
In Hinduism
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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.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c Monier Monier-Williams (1898), Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Archive: भव Archived 13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, bhava
- ^ a b c What is Habitual Tendencies? Archived 17 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine by Bhante Vimalaramsi and Sister Khanti-Khema
- ^ Julius Evola; H. E. Musson (1996). The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts. Inner Traditions. pp. 67–68. ISBN 978-0-89281-553-1.
- ^ a b c d Thomas William Rhys Davids; William Stede (1921). Pali-English Dictionary. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 499. ISBN 978-81-208-1144-7.
- ^ भव Archived 7 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Sanskrit English Dictionary, Koeln University, Germany
- ^ a b Monier Monier-Williams (1899), Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Archive: भाव Archived 13 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, bhAva
- ^ Caroline A.F. Rhys Davids, Stories of the Buddha (Being Selections from the Jātakas), 1989, Dover Publications, Introduction, pp. xix, also see pp. 2, 6, 11, etc.