ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས། | Glossary of Terms
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ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས།
- phyir mi ldog pa’i sa
- avaivartyabhūmi
- avaivartya
- avinirvartanīya
- āvaivarttikabhūmi
- avaivartikabhūmi
- avaivartika
- avinivartabhūmi
- avinivartanıya-bhūmi
- Term
- stage of nonregression
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས།
- phyir mi ldog pa’i sa
- avaivartikabhūmi
A term used to describe a stage on the path at which further progress is assured, with no further possibility of retrogressing to a previous stage.
- stage of nonregression
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས།
- phyir mi ldog pa’i sa
- avaivartika
A stage on the bodhisattva path on which the practitioner will never turn back, or be turned back, from progress toward the full awakening of a buddha.
- irreversible level
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས།
- phyir mi ldog pa’i sa
- avaivartya
- avinirvartanīya
- āvaivarttikabhūmi
- level at which progress has become irreversible
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས།
- phyir mi ldog pa’i sa
- avinivartabhūmi
- level of a non-returner
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས།
- phyir mi ldog pa’i sa
- avinivartanıya-bhūmi
A level on the path to awakening at which point there is no danger of falling back into saṃsāra.
- nonregressing level
- ཕྱིར་མི་ལྡོག་པའི་ས།
- phyir mi ldog pa’i sa
- avaivartyabhūmi
- 不退轉地
A level of no retrogression, the attainment of which assures further progress. Such a state is associated variously with different stages of the path or bodhisattva levels, as well as with pure lands such as Sukhāvatī or, in this case, Tuṣita heaven.