བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས། | Glossary of Terms

One of the levels in the highest heaven of the realm of form; also the name of the gods living there.

Literally meaning “Increasing Merit,” the more usual name for what is, in the Prajñāpāramitā literature, the fifteenth of the sixteen levels of the god realm of form that correspond to the four meditative concentrations, and in this text and in the Hundred Thousand is instead rendered Apramāṇabṛhat (q.v.). Puṇyaprasava is used in the later Sanskrit manuscripts that correspond more closely to the eight-chapter Tengyur version of this text. In other genres, it is the eleventh of twelve levels corresponding to the four meditative concentrations.

Lit. “Merit Born.” The eleventh of the seventeen heavens of the form realm; also the name of the gods living there. In the form realm, which is structured according to the four concentrations and pure abodes‍‍, or Śuddhāvāsa, it is listed as the second of the three heavens that correspond to the fourth of the four concentrations.

In the Sarvāstivada tradition, the second highest of the three paradises that correspond to the fourth dhyāna in the form realm.

Eleventh god realm of the form realm, meaning “Increasing Merit,” it is the second of the three heavens that make up the fourth dhyāna heaven in the form realm.

One of the gods’ realms; also the name of the gods living there.

In the Sarvāstivāda tradition, the second highest of the three paradises that correspond to the fourth dhyāna in the form realm. Translated in other texts as bsod nams ’phel ba.

The eleventh of the seventeen heavens of the form realm; also the name of the gods living there. In the form realm, which is structured according to the four concentrations and the pure realms, it is listed as the second of the three heavens that correspond to the fourth of the four concentrations.

The eleventh heaven of the form realm.

The second level of the fourth concentration.

A class of devas belonging to the Pure Abodes (Śuddhāvāsa) in the world of form (rūpadhātu).

Third of three heavens of gods on the fourth concentration level.

The eleventh of the heavens of the form realm. Rebirth there is the karmic result of accomplishing the third or, according to the Mvy, fourth meditative absorption. See also UT22084-072-007-271.

One of the heavens of Buddhist cosmology, second of three levels of the fourth dhyāna realm.

One of the gods’ realms; also used as the name of the gods living there.

The second of the four classes of gods of the form realm in the fourth dhyāna. The name is the same for both the location and the inhabitant deities. Often also referred to as bsod nams skyes in other works.