84000 Glossary of Terms

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ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ།

  • nam mkha’ mtha’ yas skye mched la nye bar bsgrubs te gnas pa
  • ākāśānantyāyatanamupasampadya viharati
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  • one achieves and dwells in the sphere of infinite space, [thinking, ‘Space is infinite.’]
  • ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ།
  • nam mkha’ mtha’ yas skye mched la nye bar bsgrubs te gnas pa
  • ākāśānantyāyatanamupasampadya viharati
Definition in this text:

Fourth of the eight aspects of liberation. Also the fifth of the nine serial steps of meditative absorption and the first of the four formless meditative absorptions.