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.
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.
- 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.