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The Five Pure Heavens (Tib. གཙང་གནས་ལྔ་, Wyl. gtsang gnas lnga) are the five uppermost realms of the seventeen heavens of gods (Skt. rupadhatuvasiñjati; Tib. གཟུགས་ཁམས་གནས་རི་བཅུ་བདུན་, Wyl. gzugs khams gnas ri bcu bdun) in the form realm, and the highest in this world according to Indian cosmogony. They are a result of the fourth dhyana meditation.

Unexcelled (Skt. Akanishtha, Tib. འོག་མིན་, Wyl. ‘og min)
Extreme Insight/Great Vision (Skt. Sudarśa; Tib. ཤིན་ཏུ་མཐོང་, shin tu mthong)
Perfect Appearance/The Marvellous (Skt. Sudṛśa; Tib. གྱ་ནོམ་སྣང་བ་, gya nom snang ba)
The Painless/Without Distress (Skt. Atapa; Tib. མི་གདུང་པ་, mi gdung pa)
The Slightest/Not So Great (Skt. Abṛha; Tib. མི་ཆེ་བ་, mi che ba)

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