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གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས། | Glossary of Terms
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གཟུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་ཁམས།
- གཟུགས་མེད་ཁམས།
- གཟུགས་མེད་པ།
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- gzugs med kyi khams
- gzugs med khams
- gzugs med pa
- arūpadhātu
- ārūpyadhātu
- arūpaloka
- ārūpyadhatu
- ārūpadhātu
- arūpyadhātu
- arūpa
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The highest and subtlest of the three realms of saṃsāra in Buddhist cosmology. Here beings are no longer bound by materiality and enjoy a purely mental state of absorption. It is divided in four levels according to each of the four formless concentrations (ārūpyāvacaradhyāna), namely, the Sphere of Infinite Space (Ākāśānantyāyatana), the Sphere of Infinite Consciousness (Vijñānānantyāyatana), the Sphere of Nothingness (Akiñcanyāyatana), and the Sphere of Neither Perception nor Non-perception (Naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana). The formless realm is located above the other two realms of saṃsāra: the form realm (rūpadhātu) and the desire realm (kāmadhātu).
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
The third and highest of the three realms where living beings transmigrate.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
One of the three realms of saṃsāra, where beings have only subtle mental form.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་ཁམས།
- gzugs med khams
- ārūpyadhātu
The highest of the three realms within saṃsāra, beings in the formless realm are no longer bound to even the most subtle materiality.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
- arūpadhātu
One of the three realms of saṃsāra, characterized by having only subtle mental form.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
In Buddhist cosmology, the sphere of existence two levels more subtle than our own (the desire realm), where beings are no longer physically embodied, and thus not subject to the sufferings that physical embodiment brings. See also “three realms.”
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་ཁམས།
- gzugs med khams
- ārūpyadhātu
One of the three realms. See glossary s.v. “three realms” (khams gsum).
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
In Buddhist cosmology, the sphere of existence two levels more subtle than our own (the desire realm), where beings are no longer physically embodied, and thus not subject to the sufferings that physical embodiment brings. See the “three realms.”
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་ཁམས།
- gzugs med khams
- ārūpyadhātu
In Buddhist cosmology, the sphere of existence two levels more subtle than our own (the desire realm), where beings are no longer physically embodied, and thus not subject to the sufferings that physical embodiment brings.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
- arūpadhātu
One of the three realms of saṃsāra, characterized by having only a subtle mental form.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པ།
- gzugs med pa
- arūpa
In Buddhist cosmology, the sphere of existence two levels more subtle than our own (the desire realm), where beings are no longer physically embodied, and thus not subject to the sufferings that physical embodiment brings.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
One of the three realms of saṃsāra, characterized by having only a subtle mental form.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་ཀྱི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med kyi khams
- ārūpyadhātu
- arūpadhātu
- arūpaloka
In Buddhist cosmology, the sphere of existence two levels more subtle than our own (the desire realm), where beings are no longer physically embodied, and thus not subject to the sufferings that physical embodiment brings. It is one of the three basic divisions of the realms of existence that constitute saṃsāra. The other two are the desire realm and the form realm. See Gethin 1998, 116–18.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- arūpadhātu
In Buddhist cosmology, the sphere of existence two levels more subtle than our own (the desire realm), where beings are no longer physically embodied, and thus not subject to the sufferings that physical embodiment brings.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpadhātu
- arūpyadhātu
In Buddhist cosmology, the sphere of existence two levels more subtle than our own (the desire realm), where beings are no longer physically embodied, and thus not subject to the sufferings that physical embodiment brings.
- formless realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhātu
- immaterial realm
- གཟུགས་མེད་ཁམས།
- gzugs med khams
- ārūpyadhātu
- realm of formlessness
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhatu
- world system of formlessness
- གཟུགས་མེད་པའི་ཁམས།
- gzugs med pa’i khams
- ārūpyadhatu