84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ།

  • cung zad med pa’i skye mched la nye bar bsgrubs te gnas pa
  • akiṃcanyāyatanamupasampadya viharati
  • Term
Publications: 1
  • one achieves and dwells in the sphere of nothing-at-all, [thinking, ‘There is nothing at all’]
  • ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ།
  • cung zad med pa’i skye mched la nye bar bsgrubs te gnas pa
  • akiṃcanyāyatanamupasampadya viharati
Definition in this text:

Sixth of the eight aspects of liberation. Also the seventh of the nine serial steps of meditative absorption and the third of the four formless meditative absorptions.

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ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།

  • akiñcanyāyatana
  • akiñcanyāyatanaṃ
  • ākiñcanyāyatana
  • ākiñcanyāyatanopaga
  • ākiṃcanyāyatana
  • ākiṃcityāyatana
  • abode of nothing whatsoever
  • field of nothing whatsoever
  • Nothingness
  • Sphere of Absolute Nothingness
  • sphere of nothing whatsoever
  • sphere of nothing-at-all
  • sphere of nothingness
  • state of nothingness
  • station of nothing-at-all
  • those belonging to the sphere of nothingness