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The '''four modes of birth''' ([[Wyl.]] ''skye gnas bzhi'') - According to tantric theory, all forms of birth fall into one of four categories:  
The '''four modes of birth''' ([[Wyl.]] ''skye gnas bzhi'') — according to tantric theory, all forms of birth fall into one of four categories:  
#womb birth (for humans and certain classes of [[animals]] and [[preta]]s);
#womb birth (for humans and certain classes of [[animals]] and [[preta]]s);
#egg birth (for certain animals);
#egg birth (for certain animals);
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Revision as of 14:24, 22 May 2009

The four modes of birth (Wyl. skye gnas bzhi) — according to tantric theory, all forms of birth fall into one of four categories:

  1. womb birth (for humans and certain classes of animals and pretas);
  2. egg birth (for certain animals);
  3. spontaneous generation from warmth and moisture or heat-moisture birth (for certain “inferior” types of animals), and
  4. miraculous birth or manifestation (for all gods, hell beings, and beings in the intermediate state, as well as certain classes of preta and humans such as bodhisattva emanations).