མཐོ་རིས། | Glossary of Terms
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བཟང་འགྲོ།
- མཐོ་རིས།
- mtho ris
- bzang ’gro
- svarga
- sadgati
- sugati
- Term
- higher realms
- མཐོ་རིས།
- mtho ris
- svarga
The states of gods, demigods, and humans.
- higher realms
- མཐོ་རིས།
- mtho ris
- sugati
The states of gods, asuras, and humans.
The three higher realms of saṃsāra, those of the humans, asuras, and devas.
Here the Tibetan term “higher realms” (mtho ris) translates the Sanskrit svarga, meaning “heaven” or “heavenly realms.”
- exalted realms
- མཐོ་རིས།
- mtho ris
- svarga
The realms of higher rebirth comprising the different levels of the gods. In the canonical texts this term does not include the human realm.
- favorable states
- བཟང་འགྲོ།
- bzang ’gro
- sadgati
The higher states of rebirth including those of gods, asuras, and human beings.
The blissful realms of devas according to Buddhist cosmology.
- heavenly rebirth
- མཐོ་རིས།
- mtho ris
- svarga
- heavens
- མཐོ་རིས།
- mtho ris
- svarga
The realms of gods according to Buddhism; in Vedism the blissful afterlife presided over by Yama.
- higher states of existence
- མཐོ་རིས།
- mtho ris
- svarga
The realms of the gods.