བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས། | Glossary of Terms
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བསོད་ནམས་འཕེལ་བ།
- བསོད་ནམས་འཕེལ།
- བསོད་ནམས་འོད།
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས་པ།
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- bsod nams ’od
- bsod nams ’phel
- bsod nams ’phel ba
- bsod nams skyes pa
- puṇyaprasava
- puṇyābha
- punyaprasava
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- Puṇyaprasava
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
One of the levels in the highest heaven of the realm of form; also the name of the gods living there.
- Puṇyaprasava
- བསོད་ནམས་འཕེལ།
- bsod nams ’phel
- puṇyaprasava
Literally meaning “Increasing Merit,” the more usual name for what is, in the Prajñāpāramitā literature, the fifteenth of the sixteen levels of the god realm of form that correspond to the four meditative concentrations, and in this text and in the Hundred Thousand is instead rendered Apramāṇabṛhat (q.v.). Puṇyaprasava is used in the later Sanskrit manuscripts that correspond more closely to the eight-chapter Tengyur version of this text. In other genres, it is the eleventh of twelve levels corresponding to the four meditative concentrations.
- Puṇyaprasava
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
Lit. “Merit Born.” The eleventh 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 second of the three heavens that correspond to the fourth of the four concentrations.
- Puṇyaprasava
- བསོད་ནམས་འཕེལ་བ།
- bsod nams ’phel ba
- puṇyaprasava
In the Sarvāstivada tradition, the second highest of the three paradises that correspond to the fourth dhyāna in the form realm.
- Puṇyaprasava
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
Eleventh god realm of the form realm, meaning “Increasing Merit,” it is the second of the three heavens that make up the fourth dhyāna heaven in the form realm.
- Puṇyaprasava
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
One of the gods’ realms; also the name of the gods living there.
In the Sarvāstivāda tradition, the second highest of the three paradises that correspond to the fourth dhyāna in the form realm. Translated in other texts as bsod nams ’phel ba.
- Heaven of Increased Merit
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
The eleventh 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 the pure realms, it is listed as the second of the three heavens that correspond to the fourth of the four concentrations.
- Heaven of Increased Merit
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
The eleventh heaven of the form realm.
- Heaven of Increased Merit
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
The second level of the fourth concentration.
- Abundance of Merit
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
A class of devas belonging to the Pure Abodes (Śuddhāvāsa) in the world of form (rūpadhātu).
- Born from Merit
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
Third of three heavens of gods on the fourth concentration level.
- Heaven Born from Merit
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
The eleventh of the heavens of the form realm. Rebirth there is the karmic result of accomplishing the third or, according to the Mvy, fourth meditative absorption. See also UT22084-072-007-271.
- Increased Merit Heaven
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyaprasava
- Increasing Merit
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams skyes
- punyaprasava
One of the heavens of Buddhist cosmology, second of three levels of the fourth dhyāna realm.
- Puṇyābha
- བསོད་ནམས་འོད།
- བསོད་ནམས་སྐྱེས།
- bsod nams ’od
- bsod nams skyes
- puṇyābha
One of the gods’ realms; also used as the name of the gods living there.
- those with abundant merit
- བསོད་ནམས་འཕེལ།
- bsod nams ’phel
- puṇyaprasava
The second of the four classes of gods of the form realm in the fourth dhyāna. The name is the same for both the location and the inhabitant deities. Often also referred to as bsod nams skyes in other works.