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སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ། | Glossary of Terms
སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
sum cu rtsa gsum
Trāyastriṃśa
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- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trayastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
- 忉利天
- 三十三天
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་ལྷའི་གནས།
- sum cu rtsa gsum lha’i gnas
- Trāyastriṃśa
- 忉利天
The second lowest of the six heavens of the desire realm, located on top of Mount Sumeru in the Buddhist cosmology.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Tridaśa
In Sanskrit lit. “the 3x10” (in round numbers for 3x11) Trāyastriṃśa heaven, to be found on the top of Mount Meru, the abode of Indra and the thirty-three gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- trāyastriṃśa
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- trāyastriṃśa
The paradise of Indra on the summit of Sumeru where there are thirty-three leading deities, hence the name “Heaven of the Thirty-Three.” The second (counting from the lowest) of the six paradises in the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་རིས།
- sum cu rtsa gsum ris
- Trāyastriṃśatkāyika
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra and thirty-two other deities.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the heavens of Buddhist cosmology. Counted among the six heavens of the desire realm, it is traditionally located atop Sumeru, just above the terrace of the Abodes of the Four Great Kings.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- trāyastriṃśa
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
A heaven within the upper reaches of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- trāyastriṃśa
In Buddhist cosmology, an important heaven of the desire realm ruled by Śakra.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra, otherwise known as Śakra, and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trayatriṃśa
The second (fifth highest) of the six levels of gods of the Desire Realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the heavens of Buddhist cosmology. Counted among the six heavens of the desire realm, it is traditionally located atop Sumeru, just above the terrace of the Abodes of the Four Great Kings.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, it is found at the top of Mount Meru and is the abode of Śakra and the thirty-three gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Śakra (Indra) and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
- 忉利天
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trayastriṃśa
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Śakra and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་གྱི་རིས།
- sum cu rtsa gsum gyi ris
- Trayastriṃśat
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second of the six heavens in the desire realm, it is ruled by Indra and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, it is found at the top of Mount Meru and is the abode of Śakra and the thirty-three gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second-lowest heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra, otherwise known as Śakra, and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
Name of a god realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trayastriṃśa
The second of the six heavens of the desire realm. It is traditionally located atop Mount Meru, just above the terrace of the abodes of the Four Great Kings. Its chief is Śakra/Indra.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trayastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, it is found at the top of Mount Meru and is the abode of Śakra and the thirty-three gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second lowest of the six heavens of the desire realm.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the heavens of Buddhist cosmology. Counted among the six heavens of the desire realm, it is traditionally located atop Sumeru, just above the terrace of the Abodes of the Four Great Kings.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Śakra (also known as Indra or Kauśika). This heaven receives its name because it encompasses thirty-three distinct divine locations.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
One of the heavens of Buddhist cosmology, the second heaven of the desire realm. It is located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra, otherwise known as Śakra, and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trayastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Indra, otherwise known as Śakra, and thirty-two other gods.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trayastriṃśa
According to Buddhist cosmology, the Heaven of the Thirty-Three is the second lowest of the six heavens of the desire realm (kāmadhātu), just above the Heaven of the Four Great Kings (Caturmahārājakāyika) and below the Yāma Heaven. It is situated on the flat summit of Mount Sumeru and inhabited by thirty-three divinities, presided over by Śakra.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Heaven of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second heaven of the desire realm, located above Mount Meru and reigned over by Śakra (Indra) and thirty-two other gods.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
- Trayastriṃśa
Lit. “Thirty-Three.” It is the second of the six heavens in the desire realm; also the name of the gods living there. The paradise of Śatakratu on the summit of Sumeru where there are thirty-three leading deities, hence the name.
- Trayastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trayastriṃśa
Second god realm of desire, abode of the thirty-three gods.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
- Tridaśaloka
- Tridaśa
The paradise of Śakra, also known as Indra, on the summit of Sumeru. The names means “Thirty-Three,” from the thirty-three principal deities that dwell there.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
The paradise on the summit of Sumeru.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
The paradise on the summit of Sumeru.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
Indra’s paradise on the summit of Sumeru.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
The paradise of Indra on the summit of Sumeru, where there are thirty-three leading deities, hence the name “thirty-three.” The second (counting from the lowest) of the six paradises in the desire realm.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་བཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum bcu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
An important heaven in Hindu and Buddhist cosmologies; it is the second heaven in the realm of forms in Buddhist cosmology presided over by Śakra; also refers to the gods who dwell there.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The second of the six god realms of the desire realm, the abode of the thirty-three gods.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
The Heaven of the “Thirty-Three,” second level of the desire-realm, located on top of Mount Sumeru in the Buddhist cosmology.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
The heaven “of the thirty-three gods” at the summit of Mount Meru. This is the second lowest heaven in the realm of sense pleasure (kāmadhātu), above the heaven of the Four Great Kings.
- Trāyastriṃśa
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- Trāyastriṃśa
- Trayastriṃśa
Lit. “Thirty-Three.” It is the second of the six heavens in the desire realm; also the name of the gods living there. The paradise of Śatakratu on the summit of Sumeru where there are thirty-three leading deities, hence the name.
- Thirty-Three
- སུམ་བཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum bcu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
The heaven of the desire realm just above the heaven of the Four Great Kings atop Sumeru.
- Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum pa
- trayastriṃśat
A class of gods.
- Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśa
Indra’s paradise on the summit of Sumeru.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Thirty-Three
- སུམ་བཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- བཅུ་གསུམ།
- གསུམ་ཅུ།
- sum bcu rtsa gsum
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- bcu gsum
- gsum cu
- Tṛdaśa
- Trayastriṃśa
The paradise of Indra.
- Realm of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་བཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ།
- sum bcu rtsa gsum pa
- Trayastṛṃśa
One of the gods’ realms.
- Realm of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Tṛdaśa
One of the gods’ realms; also used as the name of the gods living there.
- Abode of the Thirty-Three
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་གྱི་གནས།
- sum cu rtsa gsum gyi gnas
- Trāyastriṃśa
Second of six levels of gods in the desire realm.
- Thirty-Three Gods
- སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ།
- sum cu rtsa gsum
- Trāyastriṃśāḥ
Name of a class of gods in the desire realm. There is also an associated heavenly realm, the Realm of the Thirty-Three Gods, which is named after these.