• Mahābhūta is Sanskrit for "great element". However, very few scholars define the five mahābhūtas in a broader sense as the five fundamental aspects of...
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  • 2020 Bollywood film starring Vicky Kaushal, spinoff of the 2003 film Mahābhūta, classical elements in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy also represented...
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    wind property.' Tibetan Buddhist medical literature speaks of the pañca mahābhūta (five elements) or "elemental properties": earth, water, fire, wind, and...
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    form (rūpa)   4 elements (mahābhūta)         ↓     contact (phassa)     ↓ ↑   consciousness (viññāna)  ...
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    Japanese and Korean Buddhism who is associated with the great element (mahābhūta) of space (ākāśa). Ākāśagarbha is regarded as one of the eight great bodhisattvas...
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  • six human tastes/rasas as below. Pancha Bhuta Sthalam Classical element Mahābhūta Tanmatras Mudra Gopal, Madan (1990). K.S. Gautam (ed.). India through...
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    is one of the five major Shiva Temples of Tamil Nadu representing the Mahābhūta or five elements; this temple represents the element of water, or neer...
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  • of Tantra, Hindu and Buddhist traditions are directly related to the mahābhūta or great elements and that the pañcamakara is actually a vulgar term for...
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  • ancient Chinese theory involving five 'phases', 'agents', or 'elements' Mahābhūta, the five elements in Indian philosophy Pancha Tattva (Vaishnavism) Boron...
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  • (fu), and void (ku). Its origins are from the Indian Buddhist concept of Mahābhūta, disseminated and influenced by Chinese traditions before being absorbed...
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  • This is due to non-recognition of the five lights. Matter includes the mahābhūta or classical elements, namely: space, air, water, fire, earth. Knowledge...
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  • philosophy), the basis of the universe according to Japanese philosophy Mahābhūta, the four great elements in Buddhism, five in Hinduism Tattva, an elemental...
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    temple is a significant feature. The temple entrance arch will depict Mahābhūta (the five elements). there is vishnu gundam. It is also proved that when...
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    ISBN 978-81-208-0306-0. Bäumer, Bettina (1988). Kalātattvakośa: Primal elements-Mahābhūta. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and Motilal Banarsidass Publishers...
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    energy and gaseousness), fire (property of heat and cold). See also Mahabhuta. In other places in the Pali Canon (DN 33, MN 140 and SN 27.9) we also...
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    derive their qualities from the five elements (Sanskrit: पञ्चमहाभूत; pañca-mahābhūta) of classical Indian philosophy. Vāta or vata is characterized by the...
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    Tattva (Mahābhūta) Equivalent element Symbol Alternative symbol Description Akasha Spirit black or indigo vesica piscis or egg Tejas Fire - red equilateral...
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  • section on the "six sextets"), the six primary "elements" (dhātu, cf. mahābhūta), and the five "aggregates" (khandha). SN 27.1 (trans. Thanissaro, 1994)...
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  • imperceptible. According to the Samkhya school, akasha is one of the five Mahābhūtas (grand physical elements) having the specific property of sound. In the...
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    form (rūpa)   4 elements (mahābhūta)         ↓     contact (phassa)     ↓ ↑   consciousness (viññāna)  ...
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    danda. The symbolic use of colour to denote the Classical Elements or Mahabhuta and letters and bija syllables from sacred alphabetic scripts are other...
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    transform and convey. Yet the term is also used with the meaning of a Mahabhuta (constitutive substance), one of five that the earliest Vedic thinkers...
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  • of their actions. Paramatman is different from five elements (pancha mahabhutas), the senses, mind, pradhana and jiva. Vaishnava sects maintain that attaining...
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    Vietnamese cuisine is influenced by the Asian principle of five elements and mahābhūta. The principle of yin and yang (Vietnamese: Âm dương) is applied in composing...
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  • (classical element) Air (classical element) For variations see: Wu Xing • Mahābhūta • Five elements (Japanese philosophy) Alchemy in art and entertainment...
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    between the cause and the result is the nature (dhātu, see also Svabhava, Mahābhūta, and Eighteen dhātus) which is common to both, namely the dharmadhātu...
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  • form (rūpa)   4 elements (mahābhūta)         ↓     contact (phassa)     ↓ ↑   consciousness (viññāna)  ...
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  • srid kyi dri mas rdul tsam yang ma gos pa bzhin no/ ZhNy Tsa, p. 427 The Mahābhūta, the Five Great Elements; The Ten Indriya, the ten senses or powers: The...
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  • Chūganha Vi: Trung quán tông mahabhuta four great elements in traditional Buddhist thought Pāli and Sanskrit: Mahābhūta Bur: မဟာဘုတ် Mahabhot (IPA: [məhà...
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    is nigh, and continues through the dissolution or transmutation of the Mahabhuta until the external and internal breath has completed. Chönyi bardo (chos...
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