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ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན། | Glossary of Terms
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ཚངས་པ།
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- tshangs pa
- brahmāloka
- brahmaloka
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A collective name for the first three heavens of the form realm, which correspond to the first concentration (dhyāna): Brahmakāyika, Brahmapurohita, and Mahābrahmā (also called Brahmapārṣadya). These are ruled over by the god Brahmā, who believes himself to be the creator of the universe. According to some sources, it can also be a general reference to all the heavens in the form realm and formless realm. (Provisional 84000 definition. New definition forthcoming.)
- Brahmā World
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
The heaven of Brahmā, a god who rules the Sahā World.
- Brahmā world
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
The heaven of Brahmā, usually located just above the desire realm as one of the first levels of the form realm and equated with the state that one achieves in the first meditative concentration (dhyāna).
- Brahmā world
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmāloka
The saṃsāric realms of the god Brahmā in the form realm.
- Brahmā world
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmāloka
The heaven of Brahmā, usually located just above the desire realm (kāmadhātu) as one of the first levels of the form realm (rūpadhātu) and equated with the state that one achieves in the first meditative absorption (dhyāna).
- Brahmaloka
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
A collective name for the first three heavens of the form realm, which correspond to the first concentration (dhyāna): Brahmakāyika, Brahmapurohita, and Mahābrahmā (also called Brahmapārṣadya in this text). These are ruled over by the god Brahmā, who believes himself to be the creator of the universe. According to some sources, it can also be a general reference to all the heavens in the form realm and formless realm.
- Brahmāloka
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmāloka
The heaven of Brahmā, usually located just above the desire realm (kāmadhātu) as one of the first levels of the form realm (rūpadhātu) and equated with the state that one achieves in the first meditative absorption (dhyāna).
- Brahmaloka
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
“World of Brahmā,” one of the high heavens.
- Brahmaloka
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
A collective name for the first three heavens of the form realm, which correspond to the first concentration (dhyāna): Brahmakāyika, Brahmapurohita, and Mahābrahmā (also called Brahmapārṣadya). These are ruled over by the god Brahmā, who believes himself to be the creator of the universe. According to some sources, it can also be a general reference to all the heavens in the form realm and formless realm.
- realm of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmāloka
- Realm of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
The realm (loka) or heaven of Brahmā, usually located just above the desire realm (kāmadhātu) as one of the first levels of the form realm (rūpadhātu) and equated with the state that one achieves in the first concentration (dhyāna).
- realm of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
See “Brahmā realm.”
- Brahmā realm
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
The heaven of Brahmā, usually located just above the desire realm as one of the first levels of the form realm and equated with the state that one achieves in the first concentration (dhyāna). Its extent varies depending on the source.
- Brahmā realm
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmaloka
The heaven of Brahmā, the god who rules the Sahā World.
- Brahmā realms
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmāloka
The first three heavens of the form realm, ruled over by the god Brahmā, who believes himself to be the creator of the universe.
- Brahmā realms
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmāloka
The heaven of Brahmā, usually located just above the desire realm (kāmadhātu) as one of the first levels of the form realm (rūpadhātu) and equated with the state that one achieves in the first meditative absorption (dhyāna).
- Brahmā Heavens
- ཚངས་པ།
- tshangs pa
- brahmāloka
A collective term for the seventeen heavens in the form realm.
- world of Brahmā
- ཚངས་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན།
- tshangs pa’i ’jig rten
- brahmāloka
The heaven of Brahmā, usually located just above the desire realm (kāmadhātu) as one of the first levels of the form realm (rūpadhātu) and equated with the state that one achieves in the first meditative absorption (dhyāna).