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ཚངས་ཆེན། | Glossary of Terms
ཚངས་ཆེན།
tshangs chen
Mahābrahma
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- Great Brahmā
- ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- tshangs pa chen po
- Mahābrahmā
The third heaven of the form realm.
- Great Brahmā
- ཚངས་ཆེན།
- tshangs chen
- Mahābrahma
The third heaven of the form realm, it is the highest of the three realms of the first dhyāna heaven.
- Great Brahmā
- ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- tshangs pa chen po
- Mahābrahmāṇa
The name of the third of the three abodes in the first level of the form realm, so called because the beings here are like the great god Brahmā, being lords of this trichiliocosm called Endurance.
- Great Brahmā
- ཚངས་ཆེན།
- tshangs chen
- Mahābrahma
The highest level of the first concentration.
- Great Brahmā
- ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- tshangs pa chen po
- Mahābrahmāṇa
One of the heavens of Buddhist cosmology. The inhabitants of this heaven mistakenly think that they created everything.
- Mahābrahmā
- ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- tshangs pa chen po
- Mahābrahmā
Third god realm of form, meaning “great Brahmā.”
- Mahābrahma
- ཚངས་ཆེན།
- tshangs chen
- Mahābrahma
The highest of the three paradises that correspond to the first dhyāna in the form realm.
- Mahābrahmā
- ཚངས་ཆེན།
- tshangs chen
- Mahābrahmā
Third god realm of form, meaning “Great Brahmā,” it is the highest of the three realms of the first dhyāna heaven in the form realms.
- Mahābrahmā
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- Mahābrahmā
One of the gods’ realms; also the name of the gods living there.
- Heaven of Great Brahmā
- ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ།
- tshangs pa chen po
- mahābrahma
- Heaven of Great Brahmā
- ཚངས་ཆེན།
- tshangs chen
- Mahābrahmā
The third of the heavens of the form realm and the third of the three Brahmā heavens. Rebirth there is the karmic result of accomplishing the first meditative absorption.
- Mahābrahmā Heaven
- ཚངས་ཆེན།
- tshangs chen
- mahābrahma