In Buddhism, Jāti (the Sanskrit and Pāli word for "birth") refers to the arising of a new living entity in saṃsāra. Buddhism is a religion and philosophy focusing on the teachings of the Buddha Śākyamuni (Siddhārtha Gautama), who probably lived in the 5th century BCE. Buddhism spread throughout the ancient Indian sub-continent in the five centuries following the Buddhas death, and propagated into Central, Southeast, and East Asia... Sanskrit ( संस्कृतम् ; pronunciation: ) is an Indo-European classical language of India and a liturgical language of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. ... For the town and district in Rajasthan, see Pali, Rajasthan For the Ganapati temple of pali and place in Maharastra, see Ballaleshwar Pali Pāli (Devanagari पालि) is a Middle Indo-Aryan dialect or prakrit. ... Saṃsāra, the Sanskrit and Pāli term for continous movement or continuous flowing refers in Buddhism to the concept of a cycle of birth (jāti) and consequent decay and death (jarāmaraṇa), in which all beings in the universe participate and which can only be escaped...

Synonyms:

• 生 Cn: shēng; Jp: shō; Vi: sinh
• Tibetan: skyed.ba

Birth may take many forms. In traditional Buddhist thought, there are four kinds of births:

• Birth from an egg (aṇḍaja) – like a bird, fish, or reptile)
• Birth from a womb (jalābuja) – like most mammals and some worldly devas
• Birth from moisture (saṃsedaja) – probably referring to the appearance of animals whose eggs are microscopic, like maggots appearing in rotting flesh
• Birth by transformation (opapatika) – miraculous materialization, as with most devas

Jāti is the eleventh of the Twelve Nidānas, is conditioned by becoming (bhava), and is the condition for the arising of old age and death jarāmaraṇa in a living being. That is, once a being is born, it will necessarily grow old and die in time. Bhava is the Sanskrit and Pāli word for being or becoming, from the root bhÅ« to be, to become. Synonyms: 有 Cn: yÇ’u; Jp: u; Vi: hữu Tibetan: In Buddhism, bhava means the continuity of life and death, conditioned upon grasping (upādāna), the desire for further... Jarāmaraṇa, Sanskrit and Pāli for old age and decay (jarā) and dying and death (maraṇa), is a Buddhist term describing the eventual fate of all beings in saṃsāra. ...