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འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཅན། | Glossary of Terms
འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།
’du shes med pa’i sems can
Asaṃjñisattva
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- Asaṃjñisattva
- སེམས་ཅན་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པ།
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།
- འདུ་ཤེས་མ་མཆིས་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།
- sems can ’du shes med pa
- ’du shes med pa’i sems can
- ’du shes ma mchis pa’i sems can
- Asaṃjñisattva
Lit. “Perceptionless Beings.” A heavenly realm listed in this text between the twelfth heaven of the form realm, Bṛhatphala, and the five Pure Abodes of the form realm, known collectively as Śuddhāvāsa.
- Asaṃjñisattva
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།
- ’du shes med pa’i sems can
- Asaṃjñisattva
Twelfth god realm of the form realms, meaning “Beings without Concepts,” it is the third of the three heavens that make up the fourth dhyāna heaven in the form realm. Also called Bṛhatphala.
- Concept-Free Beings Heaven
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།
- ’du shes med pa’i sems can
- asaṁjñisattva
- Heaven of Concept-Free Beings
- སེམས་ཅན་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པ།
- sems can ’du shes med pa
- Asaṃjñisattva
Twelfth god realm of the form realms, it is the third of the three heavens that make up the fourth dhyāna heaven in the form realm. Also called Bṛhatphala.
- Insentient Beings
- འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་པའི་སེམས་ཅན།
- ’du shes med pa’i sems can
- Asaṃjñāsatva
A class of beings in the form realm, and the thirteenth heaven of the form realm on a level just below the devas of the Pure Abodes. The Insentient Beings are characterized by having a body but no conscious experience at all; this state is the karmic result of an ordinary or worldly form of the fourth meditative absorption called the attainment of the meditative state without consciousness. See also UT22084-072-007-14.