Śuddhāvāsa (Pāli: Suddhāvāsa; Tib: Wylie: gtsang-ma'i gnas lnga) worlds, or "Pure Abodes", are distinct from the other worlds of the rūpadhātu in that they do...

literally of "great fruit"). The pure abodes (suddhavasa, meaning something like pure, unmixed, similar to the connotation of "pure bred German shepherd"), are...

reborn into the human world after death, but into the heaven of the Pure Abodes, where only anāgāmins reside. There they attain full enlightenment (arahantship)...

certainty about the non-returner who can take multiple rebirths in the five "Pure Abodes". They do, however, only have one more rebirth in the realm of the senses...

Akaniṭṭha, meaning "Nothing Higher", "Unsurpassed") is the highest of the Pure Abodes, and thus the highest of all the form realms. It is the realm where devas...

the extra-cosmic realm or pure land called Akaniṣṭha. This realm should not be confused with the akanistha of the pure abodes, for it is a realm that completely...

achieved the state of an Anāgāmi and was reborn in the Avṛha heaven in the Pure Abodes. As a deity, he once tried to visit the Buddha, but collapsed and was...

cosmology, Maheśvara resides in Akaniṣṭha, highest of the Śuddhāvāsa ("Pure Abodes") wherein Anāgāmi ("Non-returners") who are already on the path to Arhathood...

was also given the posthumous title of Bilqis Makani (lit. 'Lady of the Pure Abode'). She was also wrongly referred to as Balmati Begum by Manrique. She...

reborn into the human world after death, but into the heaven of the Pure Abodes, where only anagamis live. There, they will attain full enlightenment...

The Pure Abodes are also a significant aspect of Buddhist soteriology because the deities born there are anāgāmins. As with the function of the pure lands...

manifestations of Buddhas such as the five Jambhalas and the devas who reside in Pure Abodes and other deities such as Tara based on some Buddhist traditions. Since...

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Pure Land Buddhism or the Pure Land School (Chinese: 淨土宗; pinyin: Jìngtǔzōng) is a broad branch of Mahayana Buddhism focused on achieving rebirth in a...

public sanitation and improvement of drainage, and the provision of piped pure water to the population. On 14 November 1971, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah left...

Jahangir honored her with the title of "Bilqis Makani" (lit. 'Lady of the Pure Abode'). She gave birth to two daughters of Salim, both of whom died during...

Pure Land is a Mahayana Buddhist concept referring to a transcendent realm emanated by a buddha or bodhisattva which has been purified by their activity...

human existence, or any lower world, after death, but is reborn in the "Pure Abodes", where he will attain Nirvāṇa, having eradicated the first five fetters...

garden round a very pure and sweet tank within the grounds of his mansion. Truly it was a pleasant spot and heart-ravishing and pure abode. Owing to excess...

sanctuary, most likely located in that city, was the Edurku ("house, pure abode"), which might had been a part of Eugalgal ("house of great storms"),...

contrast, dominant schools of Hinduism assert the existence of Ātman as pure awareness or witness-consciousness, "reify[ing] consciousness as an eternal...

*para-bala) is an East Asian Mahayana Buddhist concept which is discussed in Pure Land Buddhism and other forms of East Asian Buddhism. It generally refers...

respectively in lines 295 and 297. It is also possible that Edurku, “House, Pure Abode”, a sanctuary of Shala attested in a lipšur litany, was similarly located...

of generation, five destinies, seven stations of consciousness and nine abodes of being. Buddhaghosa also criticizes the view that nibbāna is a kind of...

temple to temple, singing the praises of Vishnu. They hailed the divine abodes of Vishnu and converted many people to Vaishnavism. Like the Alvars, the...

"desire for the formless." Harvey (2007), p. 72, uses "attachment to the pure form or formless worlds." Thanissaro (2000) uses "passion for what is formless...

spiritually as well as physically beneath Vaikuntha and Kailasha, the celestial abodes of Vishnu and Shiva. In Buddhism, Svarga (heaven) is one of the many worlds...

Shuddadvaita (Sanskrit: śuddhādvaita "pure non-dualism") is the "purely non-dual" philosophy propounded by the Hindu philosopher Vallabha (1479-1531 CE)...

Kerala, India. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams, considered the sacred abodes of Vishnu in the Sri Vaishnava tradition. Adi Shankara had created sacred...

itinerant preacher (hijiri) who founded the Ji-shū (時宗, "Time sect") branch of Pure Land Buddhism. Ippen was born at Hōgon-ji, a temple in Iyo Province (modern...