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<noinclude>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 | <noinclude>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 cosmology. They are a result of the fourth [[dhyana]] meditation. | ||
</noinclude>#Unexcelled (Skt. ''[[Akanishtha]]'', Tib. [[འོག་མིན་]], Wyl. ''‘og min'') | </noinclude>#Unexcelled (Skt. ''[[Akanishtha]]'', Tib. [[འོག་མིན་]], Wyl. ''‘og min'') | ||
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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 cosmology. 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)
Alternative Translations
- Five Pure Abodes