bhava

{{Short description|Sanskrit word meaning existence and being}}

{{Other uses|Bhava (disambiguation)}}{{Distinguish|Bhāva (Hinduism)}}

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The Sanskrit word bhava (भव) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin,Monier Monier-Williams (1898), Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Archive: [http://andhrabharati.com/dictionary/sanskrit/index.php भव] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313042348/http://andhrabharati.com/dictionary/sanskrit/index.php |date=13 March 2016 }}, bhava but also habitual or emotional tendencies.

In Buddhism, bhava is the tenth of the twelve links of Pratītyasamutpāda.{{cite book|author1=Julius Evola |author2=H. E. Musson |title=The Doctrine of Awakening: The Attainment of Self-Mastery According to the Earliest Buddhist Texts |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kza7tTkiytUC |year=1996|publisher=Inner Traditions |isbn=978-0-89281-553-1 |pages=67–68}} It is the link between reincarnations.{{cite book|author1=Thomas William Rhys Davids |author2=William Stede |title=Pali-English Dictionary |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Guw2CnxiucC |year=1921 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-1144-7 |page=499 }} 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.

In Buddhism

In Buddhism, bhava (not bhāva, condition, nature) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin experience, in the sense of rebirths and redeaths, because a being is so conditioned and propelled by the karmic accumulations; but also habitual or emotional tendencies.[http://library.dhammasukha.org/what-is-habitual-tendencies.html What is Habitual Tendencies?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517233405/http://library.dhammasukha.org/what-is-habitual-tendencies.html |date=17 May 2017 }} by Bhante Vimalaramsi and Sister Khanti-Khema

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,[http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=bhAva&direction=SE&script=HK&link=yes&beginning=0 भव] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170707192902/http://spokensanskrit.de/index.php?tinput=bhAva&direction=SE&script=HK&link=yes&beginning=0 |date=7 July 2017 }}, Sanskrit English Dictionary, Koeln University, Germany and in some context also means becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance while connoting the condition thereof.Monier Monier-Williams (1899), Sanskrit English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Archive: [http://andhrabharati.com/dictionary/sanskrit/index.php भाव] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313042348/http://andhrabharati.com/dictionary/sanskrit/index.php |date=13 March 2016 }}, bhAva

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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. 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.{{Cite book |last=DeGraff |first=Geoffrey |url=https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/Ebooks/WithEachAndEveryBreath_210603.pdf |title=With Each & Every Breath. A Guide to Meditation |date=2013 |pages=10-11}}

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.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.

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.

See also

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