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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Encyclopedic overview
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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