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ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད། | Glossary of Terms
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ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- abhibhvāyatana
- abhibhāvāyatana
- Term
- domains of mastery
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- abhibhvāyatana
See Buswell & Lopez 2014, p. 2.
- mastery over the senses
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- abhibhvāyatana
Eight stages of mastery over the senses is a classic formula describing the process of stabilizing the mind through meditation. They are divided by form (attractive, unattractive, good, and bad) and color (white, red, yellow, and blue).
- sense field of mastery
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- abhibhvāyatana
See “eight sense fields of mastery.”
- sphere of mastery
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- abhibhvāyatana
The ability to disassociate oneself from external appearances based on attainment in concentration.
- spheres of mastery
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- abhibhvāyatana
This refers to the miraculous perceptual transformation that ensues when one (1) regards lesser external forms, (2) regards greater external forms, (3) regards blue external forms, (4) regards yellow external forms, (5) regards red external forms, (6) regards white external forms, (7) abides in the sphere of infinite space, or (8) abides in the sphere of infinite consciousness.
- station of mastery
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- abhibhāvāyatana
See “eight stations of mastery.”