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**HunterM** · 07-25-2010, 01:59 AM

I looked up Punabbhava, for example, and the meaning for the word stated : re-becoming; 'renewed existence', is a Sutta term for 'rebirth' ... ....and so on.

http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud...ct/dic_idx.htm

This is good stuff. So the term "punabbhava" does not necessarily mean physical birth after death as commonly understood and translated. Re-becoming can surely be a mental process

07-25-2010, 01:59 AM	#15
HunterM Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 366 Senior Member	I looked up Punabbhava, for example, and the meaning for the word stated : re-becoming; 'renewed existence', is a Sutta term for 'rebirth' ... ....and so on. http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud...ct/dic_idx.htm This is good stuff. So the term "punabbhava" does not necessarily mean physical birth after death as commonly understood and translated. Re-becoming can surely be a mental process
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