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ཚངས་པ། | Glossary of Terms
ཚངས་པ།
tshangs pa
brahmaka
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- Brahmakāyika
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- Brahmakāyika
Lit. “Brahmā class.” The first of the seventeen heavens of the form realm; also the name of the gods living there. In the form realm, which is structured according to the four concentrations and pure abodes, or Śuddhāvāsa, it is listed as the first of the three heavens that correspond to the first of the four concentrations. Also called Brahmaloka.
- Brahmakāyika
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- Brahmakāyika
First god realm of form, meaning “stratum of Brahmā.”
- Brahmakāyika
- ཚངས་པ།
- tshangs pa
- Brahmakāyika
The devas who live in Brahmakāyika, which can mean “the three paradises of Brahmā,” which are the first dhyāna paradises in the form realm, or more specifically, the lowest of these paradises, also known as Brahmapārṣada.
- Brahmakāyika
- ཚངས་རིས།
- ཚངས་པའི་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- tshangs pa’i ris
- Brahmakāyika
Brahmā’s paradise, the lowest of the three paradises that form the paradises of the first dhyāna in the form realm. Also called Brahmapārṣada.
- Brahmakāyika
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- brahmakāyika
Brahmā’s paradise. The lowest of the three paradises that form the paradises of the first dhyāna in the form realm. Also refers to the devas who live there.
- Brahmakāyika
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- Brahmakāyika
The lowest of the three paradises that are the paradises of the first dhyāna in the form realm. The class of devas who live in the paradise of Brahmā.
- Brahmakāyika
- ཚངས་རིས།
- ཚངས་པའི་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- tshangs pa’i ris
- Brahmakāyika
First god realm of form, meaning “Stratum of Brahmā,” it is the lowest of the three heavens that make up the first dhyāna heaven in the form realm.
- Brahmakāyika
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- Brahmakāyika
One of the gods’ realms; also the name of the gods living there.
- Brahmā Realm
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- brahmakāyika
- Brahma Realm
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- brahmakāyika
First god realm of form, it is the lowest of the three heavens that make up the first dhyāna heaven in the form realm.
- Brahmā Realm
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- brahmakāyika
- Brahmā realm
- ཚངས་པའི་རིས།
- tshangs pa’i ris
- Brahmā Realm
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- Brahmakāyika
The lower realm within the first concentration.
- Brahmā realm
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- brahmakāyika
The lowest heaven of the form realm.
- Brahmā realms
- ཚངས་པའི་རིས།
- tshangs pa’i ris
- Brahmākāyika
First god realm of form, it is the lowest of the three heavens that make up the first dhyāna heaven in the form realm.
- Brahmaka
- ཚངས་པ།
- tshangs pa
- brahmaka
The devas who live in the paradise of Brahmā.
- Brahmapārṣada
- ཚངས་པ་ཀུན་རིས།
- tshangs pa kun ris
- Brahmapārṣada
The lowest of the three paradises that correspond to the first dhyāna in the form realm. Also called Brahmakāyika.
- Brahmā’s Assembly
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- Brahmākāyika
The general name for the class of gods that dwell in Brahmāloka.
- Deities of the Brahmā group
- ཚངས་རིགས་ཀྱི་ལྷ།
- tshangs rigs kyi lha
- brahmakāyika
A class of deities, the first, i.e., lowest, in the form realm.
- (gods) attendant on Brahmā
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- Brahmakāyika
A class of gods who inhabit the first heaven of the realm of form.
- Heaven of Brahmā’s Retinue
- ཚངས་རིས།
- tshangs ris
- Brahmakāyika
The lowest of the heavens of the form realm and of the first of the three Brahmā heavens. Rebirth there is the karmic result of accomplishing the first meditative absorption. See also UT22084-072-007-253.