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རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད། | Glossary of Terms
རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
rnam par shes pa mtha’ yas pa’i skye mched
vijñānānantyāyatana
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- Sphere of Infinite Consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatana
One of the three lower formless realms among the four formless realms, so termed because in its preparatory phase infinite consciousness is the object of meditation.
- Sphere of infinite consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatana
The second meditative state pertaining to the formless realm.
- Sphere of infinite consciousness
- རྣམ་པར་ཤེས་པ་མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam par shes pa mtha’ yas pa’i skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatana
The second of the four states of imperturbability, which leads to rebirth in the formless realm (Skt. ārūpyadhātu).
- Sphere of the infinity of consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatanaṃ
Second of the four formless absorptions.
- Sphere of the Infinity of Consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- Vijñānānantyāyatana
Second of the four heavens of the formless realm. Rebirth there is the karmic result of accomplishing one of the formless meditative absorptions.
- Station of endless consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatana
Second of the four formless realms. The term also refers to the class of gods that dwell there, and the name of the second of the four formless absorptions. The other three realms are the station of endless space, the station of nothing-at-all, and the station of neither perception nor nonperception.
- Station of endless consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatana
Second of the four formless realms. The term also refers to the class of gods that dwell there, and the name of the second of the four formless absorptions. The other three realms are the station of endless space, the station of nothing-at-all, and the station of neither perception nor nonperception.
- Endless consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas
- vijñānānantya
See “station of endless consciousness.”
- Field of limitless consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatana
Name of the second of the four formless realms and of the second formless meditative absorption, so termed because in its preparatory phase limitless consciousness is the object of meditation.
- Infinity of Consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- Vijñānānantyāyatana
Second of four states in the formless realm.
- Sphere of boundless consciousness
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched
- vijñānānantyāyatana