Mahābhūta
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{| cellpadding=2 style="float:right" | | |- | | |- | |} Mahābhūta is Sanskrit for "great element". However, very few scholars define the five mahābhūtas in a broader sense as the five fundamental aspects of physical reality.
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Vinony's link graph records 347 inbound references to Mahābhūta, and connects out to Jabir ibn Hayyan, Korean Buddhism and Prakṛti.
Vinony files it under Buddhist philosophical concepts, Classical elements and God in Hinduism.
Vinony links it to 20 Wikipedia language editions.
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13 sectionsContents
- Hinduism
- Buddhism
- Definitions
- Four primary elements
- Fifth and sixth elements
- Sensory qualities, not substances
- Soteriological uses
- Understanding suffering
- Meditation object
- Buddhist sources
- See also
- Notes
- Bibliography
{| cellpadding=2 style="float:right" | | |- | | |- | |} Mahābhūta is Sanskrit for "great element". However, very few scholars define the five mahābhūtas in a broader sense as the five fundamental aspects of physical reality.
==Hinduism==
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