"Bhava" is the tenth of the twelve links of pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination), which describes samsara, the repeated cycle of our habitual responses to sensory impressions which leads to renewed "jāti", birth. Birth is usually interpreted as rebirth in one of the realms of existence, namely heaven, demi-god, human, animal, hungry ghost or hell realms ("bhavacakra") of Buddhist cosmology. In Thai Buddhism, "bhava" is also interpreted as the habitual or emotional tendencies which leads to the arising of the sense of self, as a mental phenomenon.