Kamabhava, Kama-bhava, Kāmabhava, Kāmabhāva: 6 definitions
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Kamabhava means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines'sensuous existence'; s. bhava.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Maha Prajnaparamita SastraKāmabhava (कामभव) refers to “existence in the world of desire” and represents one of the three types of existence (bhava) according to Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra (chapter VI). Accordingly, “By virtue of actions belonging to the domain of the realm of desire, one will be reborn later in this realm to undergo the retribution of these actions (karmavipāka): this is what is called kāmabhava, existence in the world of desire. Mutatis mutandis, it is the same for the rūpabhava and ārūpyabhava. That is what is understood by existence”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionarykāmabhava : (m.) the sphere dominated by pleasures.
Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryKāmabhava refers to: a state of existence dominated by pleasures. It is the second kind of existence, the first being caused by kamma Vbh. 137. It rests on the effect of kamma, which is manifested in the kāma-dhātu A. I, 223. It is the first form of the 3 bhavas, viz. kāma°, rūpa°, arūpa° Vin. I, 36; D. III, 216; A. IV, 402; Vism. 572. Emancipation from this existence is the first condition to the attainment of Arahantship: kāmabhave asatta akiñcana Sn. 176, 1059, 1091 (expl. SnA 215: tividhe bhave alaggana); Bdhd 61. °parikkhīṇa one who has overcome the desire-existence Dh. 415=Sn. 639.
Note: kāmabhava is a Pali compound consisting of the words kāma and bhava.
Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary1) kāmabhava (ကာမဘဝ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kāma+bhava]
[ကာမ+ဘဝ]
2) kāmabhāva (ကာမဘာဝ) [(pu) (ပု)]—
[kāma+bhāva]
[ကာမ+ဘာဝ]
[Pali to Burmese]
Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)1) kāmabhava—
(Burmese text): (၁) ကာမဘုံ။ ကာမဘဝရူပ-လည်းကြည့်။ (၂) ကာမဘုံသို့ ရောက်ကြောင်းကံ။ (၃) ကာမဘုံ၌ဖြစ်သော အကျိုးတရား၊ ဥပါဒိဏ္ဏကခန္ဓာဟူသော ကာမဘဝ။ ကာမဝိပါက် ၂၃၊ ဝိရတီ,အပ္ပမညာကြဉ်သော စေတသိက် ၃၃၊ ကမ္မဇရုပ် ၂ဝ-ကို ကာမဘဝဟုခေါ်သည်။ (၄) ကာမဂုဏ်၌ တပ်သောလောဘ။ ကာမဘဝတဒုပသမ-ကြည့်။ (၅) ကာမတဏှာ,ဘုံဘဝ။ ကာမဘဝပရိက္ခီဏ-ကြည့်။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The realm of sensuality. Also observe the nature of sensual existence. (2) The fortune of reaching the realm of sensuality. (3) The consequences that occur in the realm of sensuality, known as sensual existence as a result of the karmic body. It is referred to as sensual existence in texts such as Kamma Vipaka 23, Virati, and Seta Thittha 33, and in Kammaja Rupa 20. (4) The allure that arises from the qualities of sensuality. Observe the nature of sensual existence. (5) Sensual feelings, the realm of existence. Observe the practice of sensual existence.
2) kāmabhāva—
(Burmese text): ကာမ၏အဖြစ်။
(Auto-Translation): The nature of desire.
Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
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Starts with: Kama, Kamabhavadhamma, Kamabhavagata, Kamabhavanibbattaka, Kamabhavanimitta, Kamabhavaparikkhina, Kamabhavapariyapanna, Kamabhavapatthana, Kamabhavaraga, Kamabhavarupa, Kamabhavasiddhi, Kamabhavatadupasama, Kamabhavattika, Kamabhavupaga, Kamabhavupapatti.
Full-text (+9): Kama, Kamabhavagata, Kamabhavapariyapanna, Kamabhavarupa, Kamabhavaparikkhina, Kamabhavanibbattaka, Kamabhavadhamma, Kamabhavanimitta, Kamabhavattika, Kamabhavupapatti, Kamabhavasiddhi, Kamabhavaraga, Kamabhavapatthana, Kamabhavatadupasama, Bhava, Trishna, Kamesana, Ditthasava, Kamayoga, Rupa.
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