Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

DDB Top Page 
 
 
  XML source

二十五有

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: twenty-five (stages of) existence

Senses:

  • (Skt. pañca-viṃśati-bhava) The division of the three realms that sentient beings transmigrate through into twenty-five sub-realms. In the desire realm there are fourteen existences, in the form realm there are seven existences, and in the formless realm, four existences. The twenty-five are grouped into the four evil destinies 四惡道, the four continents 四洲, the six heavens of the desire realm 六欲天, the four meditation heavens 四禪天, the heaven of the five pure abodes 五淨居天, and the four spheres of the formless realm 四空處天. [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, Yokoi, JEBD, Iwanami]
  • The term is also often simply a reference to the 'three realms'  三界 or 'all sentient beings.' [Charles Muller]
  • Search SAT
  • Search INBUDS Database

    • Feedback

    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 813

    Bulgyo sajeon 717a

    Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 979c

    Iwanami bukkyō jiten 630

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 217b/241

    Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 500

    Zengo jiten (Iriya and Koga) 6-P90

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1045c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 175

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4032a,1467c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 99-2*1322-3

    Copyright provisions

    The rights to textual segments (nodes) of the DDB are owned by the author indicated in the brackets next to each segment. For rights regarding the compilation as a whole, please contact Charles Muller. Please do not reproduce without permission. And please do not copy into Wikipedia without proper citation!

    Entry created: 1993-09-01

    Updated: 2018-02-08