DDB: 無色界 | formless realm

Digital Dictionary of Buddhism

無色界

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: formless realm

Senses:

The third of the three realms 三界. The realm of pure mind, in which materiality (oneʼs body) is transcended. This realm is characterized by the function of four different types of awareness 四無色 or 四空天:

the awareness of the limitlessness of emptiness 空無邊處 (ākāśânantyâyatana);
the awareness of limitless consciousness 識無邊處 (vijñānânantyâyatana);
the awareness of the limitlessness of nothingness 無所有處 (ākiṃcanyâyatana) and
the awareness of neither thoughtlessness nor non-thoughtlessness 非想非非想處 (naivasaṃjñā-nāsaṃjñâyatana).

(Skt. ārūpya-dhātu, ārūpyâvacara, ārūpya; arūpâvacara, arūpiṇāṃ, sattvānām, arūpin, ārūpya-pratisaṃyukta, ārūpya-bhava, ārūpya-bhūmi, ārūpya-sattva, ārūpya-samāpanna, ārūpyâpta; Pāli arūpa-dhātu; Tib. gzugs med khams) 〔成唯識論 T 1585.31.10c20〕 [Charles Muller; source(s): Ui, Nakamura, JEBD, Yokoi, Hirakawa, YBh-Ind, Iwanami]

le monde de l'absence de forme. Correspondant aux quatre āyatana [Paul Swanson]

Cf. Karashima (Lokakṣema Glossary): view / hide

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[Dictionary References]

Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 1036

Bulgyo sajeon 222a

Zengaku daijiten (Komazawa U.) 1205b

Iwanami bukkyō jiten 783

A Glossary of Zen Terms (Inagaki) 247, 303

Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 204b/228

Japanese-English Zen Buddhist Dictionary (Yokoi) 477

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1326c

Fo Guang Dictionary 5083

Ding Fubao

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa) 0759

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)4831a,1467b

Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 607-2-26*1701-1

Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa)

Lokakṣemaʼs Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā (Karashima) 510

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Entry created: 1993-09-01

Updated: 2017-06-11