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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. They are a result of the fourth dhyana meditation, and are only accessible to noble beings.

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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	<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>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]]. They are a result of the fourth [[dhyana]] meditation, and are only accessible to noble beings.

	</noinclude>#Unexcelled (Skt. ''[[Akanishtha]]'', Tib. [[འོག་མིན་]], Wyl. ''‘og min'')		</noinclude>#Unexcelled (Skt. ''[[Akanishtha]]'', Tib. [[འོག་མིན་]], Wyl. ''‘og min'')