ත්රි·භවය, n. the three different existences or conditions through which all must pass before attaining Nirvāna, viz. the Kāma, the Rūpa and the Arūpa states. The first is a state subject to passions, and includes both human and celestial beings or gods so-called; the second is a state in which the passions have been exterminated by asceticism and only a spiritual body remains, which state exists in the ten Brahma worlds; in the third or Arūpa state there remains only the pure invisible spirit. This state immediately precedes Nirvāna or the complete extinction which Buddhism teaches.
