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གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms
གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི།
gzugs med pa’i snyoms par ’jug pa bzhi
caturārūpyasamāpatti
- Term
- Four formless attainments
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི།
- gzugs med pa’i snyoms par ’jug pa bzhi
- caturārūpyasamāpatti
These comprise the attainments of (1) the sense field of infinite space, (2) the sense field of infinite consciousness, (3) the sense field of nothing-at-all, and (4) the sense field of neither perception nor non-perception.
- Four formless attainments
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི།
- gzugs med pa’i snyoms par ’jug pa bzhi
- caturārūpyasamāpatti
These are typically listed as follows: (1) the meditative absorption of the sense field of infinite space, (2) the meditative absorption of the sense field of infinite consciousness, (3) the meditative absorption of the sense field of nothing-at-all, and (4) the meditative absorption of neither perception nor non-perception.
- Four formless attainments
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི།
- gzugs med pa’i snyoms par ’jug pa bzhi
- caturārūpyasamāpatti
These comprise (1) the meditative absorption of the sense field of infinite space, (2) the meditative absorption of the sense field of infinite consciousness, (3) the meditative absorption of the sense field of nothing-at-all, and (4) the meditative absorption of neither perception nor non-perception.
- Four attainments of the formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི།
- gzugs med pa’i snyoms par ’jug pa bzhi
- caturārūpyasamāpatti
These are typically listed as follows: (1) the attainment of the sense field of limitless space, (2) the attainment of the sense field of limitless consciousness, (3) the attainment of the sense field of nothing whatsoever, and (4) the attainment of the sense field of neither perception nor non-perception.
- Four formless meditative absorptions
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི།
- gzugs med pa’i snyoms par ’jug pa bzhi
- caturārūpyasamāpatti
As found listed in UT22084-031-002-174, these comprise (1) the meditative absorption of the sense field of infinite space, (2) the meditative absorption of the sense field of infinite consciousness, (3) the meditative absorption of the sense field of nothing-at-all, and (4) the meditative absorption of neither perception nor non-perception.
The four formless absorptions and their fruits are discussed in Jamgon Kongtrul, TOK Book 6, Pt. 2: 436–438.
- Four types of formless equipoise
- གཟུགས་མ་མཆིས་པའི་སྙོམས་པར་འཇུག་པ་བཞི།
- gzugs ma mchis pa’i snyoms par ’jug pa bzhi
- caturārūpyasamāpatti
These are typically listed as follows: (1) the equipoise of the sense field of infinite space, (2) the equipoise of the sense field of infinite consciousness, (3) the equipoise of the sense field of nothing at all, and (4) the equipoise of neither perception nor nonperception.