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ཚངས་པའི་གནས། | Glossary of Terms
ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
tshangs pa’i gnas
brahmavihāra
- Term
- Abodes of Brahmā
- ཚང་པའི་གནས།
- tshang pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
- 梵住
The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the heaven of Brahmā: limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity. They were practices already prevalent in India before Śākyamuni’s teaching.
- Abodes of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
Love, compassion, joy, equanimity.
- Abodes of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས་པ།
- tshangs pa’i gnas pa
- brahmavihāra
The four abodes of Brahmā are loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity, also known as the four “immeasurables.” The term is also rendered in this translation as “Brahmā abodes.”
- Abodes of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- Brahmāvihāra
The name of a meditation practice focusing on the cultivation of compassion (karuṇā), love (maitri), empathetic joy (muditā) and equanimity (upekṣā).
- Abodes of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས་པ།
- tshangs pa’i gnas pa
- brahmavihāra
The four abodes of Brahmā are love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
- Brahmavihāra
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā and were a practice already prevalent before Śākyamuni’s teaching: limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity.
- Brahmavihāra
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā, and were a practice already prevalent before Śākyamuni’s teaching, are limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity.
- Brahmā abode
- ཚང་པའི་གནས།
- tshang pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
See “abodes of Brahmā.”
- Brahmā states
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā, and were a practice already prevalent before the Buddha Śākyamuni’s teaching, are limitless loving kindness, compassion, joy, and equanimity.
- Brahmic stages
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- brahmāvihāra
Refers to the fourfold practice of love, compassion, joy, and impartiality.
- Divine states of mind
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
The four qualities that are said to result in rebirth in the paradise of Brahmā: limitless love, compassion, rejoicing, and equanimity.
- Sublime states
- ཚངས་པའི་གནས།
- tshangs pa’i gnas
- brahmavihāra
The four qualities of limitless love, compassion, joy, and equanimity.