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'''Formless realm''' (Skt. ''arūpadhātu''; [[Wyl.]] ''gzugs med khams'') — the third of the [[three realms]], where [[gods]] without any form dwell in four types of perception spheres. | '''Formless realm''' (Skt. ''arūpadhātu''; [[Wyl.]] ''gzugs med khams'') — the third of the [[three realms]], where [[gods]] without any form dwell in four types of perception spheres. | ||
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[[Category:Places]] | [[Category:Places]] | ||
[[Category:Three Realms]] | [[Category:Three Realms]] | ||
Revision as of 07:32, 1 April 2011
Formless realm (Skt. arūpadhātu; Wyl. gzugs med khams) — the third of the three realms, where gods without any form dwell in four types of perception spheres.
Four Perception Spheres (Tib. སྐྱེ་མཆེད་མུ་བཞི་, Wyl. skye mched mu bzhi)
- Infinite Space (Skt. ākāśānantyāyatana; Tib. ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས་, nam mkha’ mtha’ yas)
- Infinite Consciousness (Skt. vijñānanyāyatana; Tib. རྣམ་ཤེས་མཐའ་ཡས་, rnam shes mtha’ yas)
- Nothing Whatsoever (Skt. ākiṃcanyāyatana; Tib. ཅི་ཡང་མེད་པ་, ci yang med pa)
- Neither Existence Nor Non-existence (Skt. naivasaṃjñānasaṃjñāyatana; Tib. ཡོད་མིན་མེད་མིན་, yod min med min). Being the highest possible state in worldly existence, this fourth sphere is also called the Peak of Existence (Tib. སྲིད་པའི་རྩེ་མོ་, Wyl. srid pa'i rtse mo).