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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.
<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 cosmogony. They are a result of the fourth [[dhyana]] meditation.


#Unexcelled (Skt. ''[[Akanishtha]]'', Tib. [[འོག་མིན་]], Wyl. ''‘og min'')
</noinclude>#Unexcelled (Skt. ''[[Akanishtha]]'', Tib. [[འོག་མིན་]], Wyl. ''‘og min'')
#Extreme Insight/Great Vision (Skt. ''Sudarśa''; Tib. [[ཤིན་ཏུ་མཐོང་]], ''shin tu mthong'')
#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'')
#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 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'')
#The Slightest/Not So Great (Skt. ''Abṛha''; Tib. [[མི་ཆེ་བ་]], ''mi che ba'')<noinclude>


==Alternative Translations==
==Alternative Translations==
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Revision as of 08:48, 22 January 2017

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.

  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)

Alternative Translations

  • Five Pure Abodes