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[[Image:Mount Meru Continents.jpg|frame|Mount Meru surrounded by the continents and subcontinents, with the gods of the Desire and Form Realms above]]'''Form realm''' (Skt. ''rūpadhātu''; [[Wyl.]] ''gzugs khams'') — the second of the [[three realms]], only 'populated' by [[gods]] and divided into seventeen heavens. The cause for being reborn in one of these heavens is the favourable [[karma]] accumulated through the practice of one of the [[four dhyanas]], each 'causal meditative [[dhyana]]' acting as a cause of rebirth in one of the corresponding 'resultant dhyana levels'.  
[[Image:Mount Meru Continents.jpg|frame|Mount Meru surrounded by the continents and subcontinents, with the gods of the Desire and Form Realms above]]'''Form realm''' (Skt. ''rūpadhātu''; Tib. [[གཟུགས་ཁམས་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gzugs khams'') — the second of the [[three realms]], only 'populated' by [[gods]] and divided into seventeen heavens. The cause for being reborn in one of these heavens is the favourable [[karma]] accumulated through the practice of one of the [[four dhyanas]], each 'causal meditative [[dhyana]]' acting as a cause of rebirth in one of the corresponding 'resultant dhyana levels'.  




==Seventeen Heavens of the Form Realm (Skt. ''rupadhatuvasiñjati''; Wyl. ''gzugs khams gnas ri bcu bdun'')==
==Seventeen Heavens of the Form Realm (Skt. ''rupadhatuvasiñjati''; Tib. [[གཟུགས་ཁམས་གནས་རི་བཅུ་བདུན་]], Wyl. ''gzugs khams gnas ri bcu bdun'')==


===Five Pure Heavens (''gtsang gnas lnga'')===
===Five Pure Heavens (Tib. [[གཙང་གནས་ལྔ་]], ''gtsang gnas lnga'')===


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


''Note'': the five pure heavens are also a result of the fourth dhyana meditation.
''Note'': the five pure heavens are also a result of the fourth dhyana meditation.


===Fourth Dhyana (''bsam gtan bzhi pa'')===
===Fourth Dhyana (Tib. [[བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་པ་]], ''bsam gtan bzhi pa'')===


*Great Fruition (Skt. ''Bṛhatphala''; ''‘bras bu che'')
*Great Fruition (Skt. ''Bṛhatphala''; Tib. [[འབྲས་བུ་ཆེ་]], ''‘bras bu che'')
*Increasing Merit (Skt. ''Puṇyaprasava''; ''bsod nams ‘phel'')
*Increasing Merit (Skt. ''Puṇyaprasava''; Tib. [[བསོད་ནམས་འཕེལ་]], ''bsod nams ‘phel'')
*Cloudless (Skt. ''Anabhraka''; ''sprin med'')
*Cloudless (Skt. ''Anabhraka''; Tib. [[སྤྲིན་མེད་]], ''sprin med'')


===Third Dhyana (''bsam gtan gsum pa'')===
===Third Dhyana (Tib. [[བསམ་གཏན་གསུམ་པ་]], ''bsam gtan gsum pa'')===


*Most Extensive Virtue (Skt. ''Śubhakṛtsna''; ''dge rgyas'')
*Most Extensive Virtue (Skt. ''Śubhakṛtsna''; Tib. [[དགེ་རྒྱས་]], ''dge rgyas'')
*Immeasurable Virtue (Skt. ''Apramāṇaśubha''; ''tshad med dge'')
*Immeasurable Virtue (Skt. ''Apramāṇaśubha''; Tib. [[ཚད་མེད་དགེ་]], ''tshad med dge'')
*Lesser Virtue (Skt. ''Parīttaśubha''; ''dge chung'')
*Lesser Virtue (Skt. ''Parīttaśubha''; Tib. [[དགེ་ཆུང་]], ''dge chung'')


===Second Dhyana (''bsam gtan gnyis pa'')===
===Second Dhyana (Tib. [[བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པ་]], ''bsam gtan gnyis pa'')===


*Clear Radiance (Skt. ''Ābhāsvara''; ''‘od gsal'')
*Clear Radiance (Skt. ''Ābhāsvara''; Tib. [[འོད་གསལ་]], ''‘od gsal'')
*Immeasurable Radiance (Skt. ''Apramāṇābha''; ''tshad med ‘od'')
*Immeasurable Radiance (Skt. ''Apramāṇābha''; Tib. [[ཚད་མེད་འོད་]], ''tshad med ‘od'')
*Lesser Radiance (Skt. ''Parīttābha''; ''‘od chung'')
*Lesser Radiance (Skt. ''Parīttābha''; Tib. [[འོད་ཆུང་]], ''‘od chung'')


===First Dhyana (''bsam gtan dang po'')===
===First Dhyana (Tib. [[བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོ་]], ''bsam gtan dang po'')===


*Great Brahma (Skt. ''Mahābrahmaṇa''; ''tshangs pa chen po'')
*Great Brahma (Skt. ''Mahābrahmaṇa''; Tib. [[ཚངས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་]], ''tshangs pa chen po'')
*Priests of Brahma (Skt. ''Brahmapurohita''; ''tshangs pa mdun na ‘don'')
*Priests of Brahma (Skt. ''Brahmapurohita''; Tib. [[ཚངས་པ་མདུན་ན་འདོན་]], ''tshangs pa mdun na ‘don'')
*Heaven of Brahma (Skt. ''Brahmakāyika''; ''tshangs ris'')
*Heaven of Brahma (Skt. ''Brahmakāyika''; Tib. [[ཚངས་རིས་]], ''tshangs ris'')




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Revision as of 07:44, 1 April 2011

Mount Meru surrounded by the continents and subcontinents, with the gods of the Desire and Form Realms above

Form realm (Skt. rūpadhātu; Tib. གཟུགས་ཁམས་, Wyl. gzugs khams) — the second of the three realms, only 'populated' by gods and divided into seventeen heavens. The cause for being reborn in one of these heavens is the favourable karma accumulated through the practice of one of the four dhyanas, each 'causal meditative dhyana' acting as a cause of rebirth in one of the corresponding 'resultant dhyana levels'.


Seventeen Heavens of the Form Realm (Skt. rupadhatuvasiñjati; Tib. གཟུགས་ཁམས་གནས་རི་བཅུ་བདུན་, Wyl. gzugs khams gnas ri bcu bdun)

Five Pure Heavens (Tib. གཙང་གནས་ལྔ་, gtsang gnas lnga)

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

Note: the five pure heavens are also a result of the fourth dhyana meditation.

Fourth Dhyana (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་བཞི་པ་, bsam gtan bzhi pa)

Third Dhyana (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་གསུམ་པ་, bsam gtan gsum pa)

Second Dhyana (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་གཉིས་པ་, bsam gtan gnyis pa)

First Dhyana (Tib. བསམ་གཏན་དང་པོ་, bsam gtan dang po)