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experiential sphere of the buddha
- sangs rgyas kyi spyod yul
- sangs rgyas kyi yul
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ།
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཡུལ།
- buddhagocara
- buddhaviṣaya
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experiential sphere
- spyod yul
- སྤྱོད་ཡུལ།
- gocara
Literally, where cattle (Skt. go) range (Skt. cara), it refers to the mind’s sphere of operations, the cognitive domain.
sphere of experience
- spyod yul
- སྤྱོད་ཡུལ།
- gocara
sphere of activity
- spyod yul
- སྤྱོད་ཡུལ།
- gocara
Also translated here as “object of experience.”
experiential sphere of the buddha
- sangs rgyas kyi spyod yul
- sangs rgyas kyi yul
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་སྤྱོད་ཡུལ།
- སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་ཡུལ།
- buddhagocara
- buddhaviṣaya
experiential sphere
- spyod yul
- སྤྱོད་ཡུལ།
- gocara
Literally, where cattle (Skt. go) range (Skt. cara), it refers to the mind’s sphere of operations, the cognitive domain.
Who satisfies the assembly with a gentle voice,
And who satisfies the world like a rain cloud—
O Sugata, thoroughly reveal the experiential sphere of buddhas. {45}
Your body’s splendor, O Sage, radiates throughout myriad buddhafields.
Leaders in all directions offer praise to you.
I praise you, O King of Sages, whose experiential sphere reaches everything. {340}
At one time you lived in the world, as if you needed to learn the science of letters.
Although you found peace within the sphere of meditative absorption and concentration,
You remained for a certain time amidst women. {336}
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one achieves and dwells in the sphere of infinite space, [thinking, ‘Space is infinite.’]
- nam mkha’ mtha’ yas skye mched la nye bar bsgrubs te gnas pa
- ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ།
- ākāśānantyāyatanamupasampadya viharati
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.
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one achieves and dwells in the sphere of nothing-at-all, [thinking, ‘There is nothing at all’]
- cung zad med pa’i skye mched la nye bar bsgrubs te gnas pa
- ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ།
- akiṃcanyāyatanamupasampadya viharati
Sixth of the eight aspects of liberation. Also the seventh of the nine serial steps of meditative absorption and the third of the four formless meditative absorptions.
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one achieves and dwells in the sphere of infinite consciousness, [thinking, ‘Consciousness is infinite.’]
- rnam shes mtha’ yas skye mched la nye bar bsgrubs te gnas pa
- རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱེ་མཆེད་ལ་ཉེ་བར་བསྒྲུབས་ཏེ་གནས་པ།
- vijñānāntyāyatanamupasampadyaviharati
Fifth of the eight aspects of liberation. Also the sixth of the nine serial steps of meditative absorption and the second of the four formless meditative absorptions.
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sense sphere
- skye mched
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- āyatana
One way of describing experience and the world in terms of twelve sense spheres (eye and form, ear and sound, nose and odor, tongue and taste, body and touch, mind and mental objects).
sense spheres
- skye mched
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- āyatana
One way of describing experience and the world in terms of twelve sense fields (eye and form, ear and sound, nose and odor, tongue and taste, body and touch, mind and mental objects).
sense base
- skye mched
- སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- āyatana
The twelve bases of sensory experience, comprising the six sense-organs and their six objects.
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triple sphere
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
A shorthand term for the triad of act, object, and agent that characterizes dualistic mind.
three spheres
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
These three aspects, literally “circles” or “provinces,” are the doer, the action, and the object of the action.
three spheres
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
Object, agent, and action.
three spheres
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
The triad of a subject, the doer; an object (direct or indirect) to which something is done; and the action of doing it. When a bodhisattva acts, none of these three aspects of the action are to be apprehended or conceptualized.
three spheres
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
The subject, the object, and the act of perception, which together constitute the pattern of duality.
three spheres
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
three spheres
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
Subject, object, and the various physical and cognitive actions that proliferate based on that duality.
three spheres [of subject, object, and their interaction]
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
three spheres
- ’khor gsum
- འཁོར་གསུམ།
- trimaṇḍala
Agent, act, and object.
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sphere of mastery
- zil gyis gnon pa’i skye mched
- ཟིལ་གྱིས་གནོན་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- abhibhvāyatana
The ability to disassociate oneself from external appearances based on attainment in concentration.
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Sphere of Nothingness
- ci yang med pa’i skye mched
- ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ākiṃcanyāyatana
Third of the four heavens of the formless realm. Rebirth there is the karmic result of accomplishing one of the formless meditative absorptions.
sphere of nothingness
- ci yang med pa’i skye mched
- chung zad med pa’i skye mched
- ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ཆུང་ཟད་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ākiñcanyāyatana
The third of the four attainments of the formless states. Also a class of devas in the formless realm (ārūpyadhātu); there is no body in this world, only mind. Rebirth there results from accomplishing the formless meditative absorptions (ārūpyasamāpatti).
sphere of nothingness
- ci yang med pa’i skye mched
- ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ākiṃcanyāyatana
The third meditative state pertaining to the formless realm.
sphere of nothingness
- cung zad med pa’i skye mched
- ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ākiṃcanyāyatana
The third of the four states of imperturbability, which leads to rebirth in the formless realm (Skt. ārūpyadhātu) as a deva without form.
sphere of nothingness
- ci yang med pa’i skye mched
- ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- akiñcanyāyatanaṃ
Third of the four formless absorptions.
those belonging to the sphere of nothingness
- ci yang med pa’i skye mched
- ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ākiñcanyāyatanopaga
A formless state, either a meditative state or its resultant realm of existence, i.e., a class of deities of the formless realm. (No equivalent of upaga in Tib.)
sphere of nothing whatsoever
- ci yang med pa’i skye mched
- ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ākiñcanyāyatana
Name of the third of the four formless realms and of the third formless concentration, so termed because in its preparatory phase absolute nothingness is the object of meditation.
sphere of nothing-at-all
- cung zad med pa’i skye mched
- ཅུང་ཟད་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- akiñcanyāyatana
The third formless meditative absorption and its resultant formless realm of existence.
Sphere of Absolute Nothingness
- ci yang med pa’i skye mched
- ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པའི་སྐྱེ་མཆེད།
- ākiṃcanyāyatana
One of the three lower formless realms among the four formless realms, so termed because in its preparatory phase absolute nothingness is the object of meditation.
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Lamp Sphere
- sgron ma’i dkyil ’khor
- སྒྲོན་མའི་དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
A buddha realm.
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sphere of phenomena
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
See “dharmadhātu.”
sphere of phenomena
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
Things as they truly are, with nothing imputed to them through dualistic thinking. The term is rendered elsewhere in this translation as “dharmadhātu.”
sphere of reality
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
A synonym for emptiness, the ultimate reality, or the ultimate nature of things. This term is interpreted variously due to the many different meanings of dharma (chos) as element, phenomena, reality, truth, and/or the teaching.
sphere of reality
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
sphere of reality
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
The element, or nature, of ultimate reality.
sphere of phenomena
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
Synonymous with the very limit of reality, it refers to the ultimate reality that is the absence of an intrinsic nature.
sphere of phenomena
- chos kyi dbyings
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས།
- dharmadhātu
See “dharmadhātu.”