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འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད། | Glossary of Terms
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འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་གྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་པ།
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན།
- སེམས་མེད་པ་དང་སེམས་མེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- sems med pa dang sems med pa ma yin pa’i skye mched
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched pa
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min gyi skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
- naivasaṁjñānāsaṁjñāyatana
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatanaṃ
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñā
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatanopaga
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- sphere of neither perception nor nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The fourth formless meditative absorption and its resultant formless realm of existence.
- Sphere of neither Perception nor Nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatanaṃ
Fourth of the four formless realms, also the name of the fourth of the four concentrations (dhyāna).
- sphere of neither perception nor nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
Fourth of the four formless absorptions.
- sphere of neither perception nor nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
One of the four attainments of the formless states and the highest class of devas in the formless realm (ārūpyadhātu); also called Peak of Existence (Bhavāgra).
- Sphere of Neither Perception nor Non-Perception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The highest of the four formless realms, so termed because conceptions are weak in it, but not entirely absent.
- sphere of neither perception nor non-perception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatanaṃ
Fourth of the four formless absorptions.
- Sphere of Neither Perception nor Non-perception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The highest of the four heavens of the formless realm, so termed because conceptions there are weak but not entirely absent. Also called “the peak of existence.”
- station of neither perception nor nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The highest of the four formless realms. The term also refers to the class of gods that dwell there and the name of the fourth of the four formless absorptions. The other three realms are the station of endless space, the station of endless consciousness, and the station of nothing-at-all.
- station of neither perception nor nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The highest of the four formless realms. The term also refers to the class of gods that dwell there and the name of the fourth of the four formless absorptions. The other three realms are the station of endless space, the station of endless consciousness, and the station of nothing-at-all.
- abode of neither perception nor no perception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṁjñānāsaṁjñāyatana
A formless state, either a meditative state or its resultant realm of existence, i.e., a class of deities of the formless realm.
- field of neither perception nor non-perception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
Name of the fourth of the four formless realms and of the fourth formless meditative absorption, so termed because conceptions are weak in it, but not entirely absent.
- Neither-Perception-nor-Nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṁjñānāsaṁjñāyatana
Fourth of four states in the formless realm.
- realm of neither notion nor no notion
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñā
The highest of the four formless realms, so termed because conceptions there are weak but not entirely absent.
- sense source of neither perception nor nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The highest of the four divine concentration realms in the formless realm, and the fourth of the four formless absorptions. The other three are infinite space, infinite consciousness, and nothingness.
- sphere of neither mind nor no-mind
- སེམས་མེད་པ་དང་སེམས་མེད་པ་མ་ཡིན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- sems med pa dang sems med pa ma yin pa’i skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The fourth of the four states of imperturbability or formless meditative absorptions or attainments (Skt. ārūpyasamāpatti), which leads to rebirth in the formless realm (Skt. ārūpyadhātu) as a deva without form.
- sphere of neither perception nor absence of perception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་གྱི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min gyi skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The fourth meditative state pertaining to the formless realm.
- stage of neither thought nor no thought
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་པ།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched pa
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana
The highest of the four divine attainments (absorptions) of the formless realm.
- those belonging to the sphere of neither perception nor nonperception
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ’du shes med ’du shes med min skye mched
- naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatanopaga
A formless state, either a meditative state or its resultant realm of existence, i.e., a class of deities of the formless realm. (No equivalent of upaga in Tib.)