Jāti

Jāti hindouist

See also: Caste

In the Indian company , beside the system of the varna exists another cutting of the Indian company, the system of the jāti , 4.635 - according to a study of the Anthropological Survey off India of 1993 - and which rather precisely recovers cutting in professions. Perhaps this last system, which approaches enough an organization of the Indian company in corporations, preexisted to the system of the varna . It will be noted that no jâti crosses linguistic border and that thus all the Indian linguistic zones have their own system of jâti .

Buddhist Jāti

In the Buddhism, jāti however takes a direction different from that of birth within the meaning of exit of the maternal belly.

In the conditioned Coproduction, the jāti is conditioned by the existence (Bhava), and conditions in its turn old age and death.

This birth recovers various aspects: “ And what birth? Whatever the birth, to take birth, go down, come-with-being, to appear, appearance of the aggregates, and acquisition of the sensory spheres of the various beings in this group or this group of beings, it is what is called the birth there” (Maha-satipatthana Sutta)

This extract lights jāti like recovering two aspects, that is to say the appearance:

Of the five aggregates of attachments, Skandha S, which constitute what is taken for a being;
Of the six sensory bases, Sadayatana.

Jāti describes in fact the embryonic process, since the design, okkanti, until the childbirth.

References

Nyanatiloka, French Vocabulary faded of the Buddhist terms , Adyar
Mahasatipatthana Sutta

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