Ba - the soul in the form of a bird with a human head from Egypt. This last section of my long essay on manomaya kāya  (in four parts)...

Essay no.400. For the Nikāyakāra (the authors of the Pali Nikāyas ) it was devas in the rūpadhātu (or their meditative equivalen...

My essay on the word manomaya  outlined how the word was originally used to refer to something made by mental activity (as opposed to ...

© British Museum In considering the Buddhist afterlife one of the more obscure terms, amidst a plethora of obscure terms, is manomaya k...