where are the post on 36 kinds of ghosts?

marcteng

25 Dec 06, 02:53

where are the post on 36 kinds of ghosts?

searching high and low for it, but cant find it.

has it been deleted away?

Taiwanpolitics

25 Dec 06, 10:03

36 types of ghost ????

Herzog_Zwei

25 Dec 06, 12:44

Originally posted by Taiwanpolitics:
36 types of ghost ????

36 types of ghosts and 1 type of stupidity. Classification of ghosts is not a buddhist practice, more often it is a cultural level kind of thing.

sinweiy

28 Dec 06, 14:18

search by name.

http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=158739

36 is just a summarise figure, in actuality, there are countless form of greed(symbolism of ghosts/gui). like in chinese expression, we call people who like to sleep a lot as tan shui gui; or those who like to eat a lot as tan chi gui.

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marcteng

31 Dec 06, 19:23

Originally posted by sinweiy:
search by name.

http://www.sgforums.com/?action=thread_display&thread_id=158739

36 is just a summarise figure, in actuality, there are countless form of greed(symbolism of ghosts/gui). like in chinese expression, we call people who like to sleep a lot as tan shui gui; or those who like to eat a lot as tan chi gui.

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you seen ghost b4? how they look like?

sinweiy

1 Jan 07, 10:57

Originally posted by marcteng:
you seen ghost b4? how they look like?

it difficult to use our naked eyes to see, as like invisible light, they are invisible beings.
but can sense their present though.

http://www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Clubs/buddhism/dhammananda/300.htm

Spirit World

There are visible and invisible beings or spirits in the same way as there are visible and invisible lights.

Buddhism does not deny the existence of good and evil spirits. There are visible and invisible beings or spirits in the same way as there are visible and invisible lights. We need special instruments to see the invisible light and we need a special sense to see the invisible beings. One cannot deny the existence of such spirits just because one is unable to see them with one's naked eyes. Theses spirits are also subject to birth and death. They are not going to stay permanently in the spirit form. They too exist in the same world where we live.

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