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{{Short description|Sanskrit word meaning existence and being}}
{{Other uses|Bhava (disambiguation)}}{{Distinguish|Bhāva (Hinduism)}}
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{{Buddhist term
|en=being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin;<ref name="MW"/> habitual or emotional tendencies.
|pi=भव
|pi-Latn=bhava
|sa=भव
|sa-Latn=bhava
|vi=hữu}}
{{Buddhist term
|en= feeling, emotion, mood, becoming
|pi=भाव
|pi-Latn=bhāva
|sa=भाव
|sa-Latn=bhāva
|si=භව or භවය
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|ja=
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|ko=
|ko-Latn=
|km= ភព (phob) or ភាវៈ (phiaveak)
|mnw=ဘာဝ
|mnw-Latn=həwɛ̀ʔ
|my=ဘာဝ
|my-Latn=bàwa̰
|th=ภวะ ({{RTGS|phawa}}) or<br>ภาวะ ({{RTGS|phawa}})
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The Sanskrit word '''''bhava''''' (भव) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin,<ref name="MW">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</ref> but also habitual or emotional tendencies.

In [[Buddhism]], ''bhava'' is the tenth of the [[Twelve Nidanas|twelve links]] of ''[[Pratītyasamutpāda]]''.<ref>{{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}}</ref> It is the link between reincarnations.<ref name="DavidsStede1921p499">{{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 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0" />

== In Buddhism ==

In [[Buddhism]], ''bhava'' (not ''bhāva'', condition, nature) means being, worldly existence, becoming, birth, be, production, origin<ref name="MW"/> experience,<ref name="DavidsStede1921p499"/> in the sense of rebirths and redeaths, because a being is so conditioned and propelled by the karmic accumulations.<ref name="DavidsStede1921p499"/>

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,<ref>[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</ref> and in some context also means becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance while connoting the condition thereof.<ref name="andhrabharati.com">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</ref>
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''Bhava'' is the tenth of the [[Twelve Nidanas|twelve links]] of [[pratitya-samutpada|pratītyasamutpāda]] (dependent origination), which describes [[Samsara (Buddhism)|samsara]], the repeated cycle of our habitual responses to sensory impressions which leads to renewed ''[[Jati (Buddhism)|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.<ref name="DavidsStede1921p499"/> 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.<ref name=":0">{{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}}</ref>

In the [[Jatakas|Jātakas]], in which the [[Gautama Siddartha|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.<ref>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.</ref>

==In Hinduism==
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''Bhava'' appears in the sense of becoming, being, existing, occurring, appearance in the Vedanga literature Shrauta Sutras, the Upanishads such as the [[Shvetashvatara Upanishad]], the [[Mahabharata]] and other ancient Hindu texts.<ref name="andhrabharati.com"/>

==See also==
*{{annotated link|Bhava samadhi}}
*[[Rebirth (Buddhism)]]
*{{annotated link|Svabhava}}
*[[Twelve Nidanas]]

== References ==

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title=[[Twelve Nidanas|Twelve Nidānas]] |
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