Vibhava Tanha, Vibhava-ٲṇh, Vibhavatanha, Vibhavaٲṇh: 7 definitions
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Vibhava Tanha means something in Buddhism, Pali. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Buddhism
Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)
: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines'craving for non-existence', or for self-annihilation; s. tanhā.
: Dhamma Study: CetasikasVibhava-tanha, craving for non-becoming, is annihilation-belief which is a kind of wrong view.
Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).
General definition (in Buddhism)
: Amaravati: Glossarydesire to get rid of something; annihilationism.
: WikiPedia: BuddhismVibhava-tanha (craving not to be) is described as follows:
1) Pali: vibhava-ٲṇh
2) Also referred to as craving for "no becoming" or "non-existence" or "extermination"
3) This is craving to not experience the world, and to be nothing.
4) The Dalai Lama states that craving for "destruction is a wish to be separated from painful feelings".
5) Ron Leifer states: "As the desire for life is based on the desire for pleasure and happiness, the desire for death is based on the desire to escape pain and [suffering]... The desire for death is the yearning for relief from pain, from anxiety, from disappointment, despair, and negativity."
6) "The motive for the desire for death is most transparent in cases of suicide. Clearly, people with terminal illnesses who commit suicide are motivated by the desire to escape from physical pain and suffering. In so-called "altruistic" suicide, such as hari-kari, kamakazi, and other forms of socially conditioned suicide, the motive is to avoid mental suffering–shame, humiliation, and disgrace."
Languages of India and abroad
Pali-English dictionary
: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English DictionaryVibhavaٲṇh refers to: “craving for life to end� (Dial. III, 208), desire for non-existence D III, 216, 275; Vin. I, 10; Ud. 33; It. 50; VbhA. 111.
Note: ٲṇh is a Pali compound consisting of the words vibhava and ٲṇh.
: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionaryٲṇh (ဝိဘဝတဏှ�) [(thī) (ထ�)]�
[vibhava+ٲṇh.vibhaveٲṇh ٲṇh.dī,ṭṭha,2�389.abhi,ṭṭha,1�398.abhi,ṭṭha,2�1va4.paṭisa�,ṭṭha,1�146.vibhavasahagatā ٲṇh ٲṇh.dī,ṭ�,3�188.]
[ဝိဘ�+တဏှာ။ ဝိဘဝေတဏှ� ဝိဘဝတဏှာ။ ဒီ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၃၈၉။ အဘိ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၃၉၈။ အဘိ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၁ဝ၄� ပဋိသံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၁၄၆။ ဝိဘဝသဟဂတ� တဏှ� ဝိဘဝတဏှာ။ ဒီ၊ ဋီ၊ ၃။ ၁၈၈။]
[Pali to Burmese]
: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မ� အဘိဓာန�)ٲṇh�
(Burmese text): (�) ဝိဘဝတဏှာ၊ ဘဝ၏-ပြတ�-ပျက်စီ�-ကင်�-ခြင်း၌ ဖြစ်သောတဏှာ၊ (ဘဝပြတ်၏ဟူ၍ဖြစ်သေ�) ဥစ္ဆေဒအယူ၌ ဖြစ်သေ� တဏှာ၊ ဥစ္ဆေဒဒိဋ္ဌိနှင့်တကွဖြစ်သေ� တဏှာ။ (�) အရူပဘဝ၌ တပ်မက်သေ� တဏှာ။
(Auto-Translation): (1) The state of consciousness that arises from the absence of life's destruction, the state of consciousness that exists in the concept of the end of life, and the state of consciousness that arises together with the sense of ultimate reality. (2) The state of consciousness that is attached to non-material existence.

Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Tanha, Vibhava.
Full-text: Vibhava, Three Kinds Of Craving, Tanha.
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