Tuṣita (Sanskrit) or Tusita (Pāli) is one of the six deva-worlds of the Desire Realm (Kāmadhātu), located between the Yāma heaven and the Nirmāṇarati...

the Tuṣita heaven. Asaṅga is said to have spent many years in intense meditation, during which time tradition says that he often visited Tuṣita to receive...

Buddhist tradition, the Buddha-to-be was residing as a bodhisattva in the Tuṣita heaven, and decided to take the shape of a white elephant to be reborn on...

center of Tuṣita Heaven (Pāli: Tusita). Gautama Buddha also lived here before he was born into the world as all bodhisattvas live in the Tuṣita Heaven before...

devas, luxurious devas to whom Māra belongs; The Nirmāṇarati devas; The Tuṣita devas, among whom the future Maitreya lives (they are also referred to as...

surrounding Gautama's birth, such as the bodhisattva's descent from the Tuṣita Heaven into his mother's womb. The sources which present a complete picture...

tall and live for 2,304,000,000 years (Sarvāstivāda tradition). Tuṣita (Pali: Tusita) The world of the "joyful" devas, it is best known for being the...

life in Tuṣita heaven. The Pali text focuses on how the bodhisattva was endowed with mindfulness and clear comprehension while living in Tuṣita, while...

then recounts how he used his meditative powers (siddhis) to travel to Tuṣita Heaven to receive teachings from Maitreya Bodhisattva on emptiness, and...

Twelve Nidānas. At 42 years of age, Buddha spent a summer retreat in the Tuṣita Heaven, where his mother had taken rebirth. In order to repay her kindness...

Seven days after the birth of Buddha, Maya died and was reborn in the Tuṣita heaven. Maya's sister and Buddha's foster-mother, Mahapajapati Gotami, later...

and various heaven realms where the devas live (such as Tavatimsa and Tusita). Rūpa-bhava, the plane of form. The realms in this plane are associated...

Mount Potala, the Copper-Colored Mountain (Wylie: Zangs-mdog dpal-ri), and Tuṣita; the most popular in Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan Buddhism is Sukhavati...

Rinpoché, H.E.C.; Coghlan, I.; Zarpani, V. (2012). Hundreds of Deities of Tusita: Commentary on Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga, Translated from Tibetan. Dga'...

that those who uphold the sutra will be reborn in the Trāyastriṃśa and Tuṣita heavens. He also says that those who uphold this sutra will have many good...

Maitreya: The Lord replied, 'Maitreya, the best of men, will then leave the Tuṣita heavens and go for his last rebirth. As soon as he is born he will walk...

Traiphum indicating all realms of existence, middle for Tavatimsa, the Tusita Heaven where all desires are gratified, and the top denoting Devaphum indicating...

tradition). The height of this world is 640 yojanas above the Earth. Tuṣita तुषित or Tusita तुसित (Tibetan: དགའ་ལྡན་, Wylie: dga' ldan; Vietnamese: Trời Đâu...

typically subdivided into six sub-realms (Catummaharajika, Tavatimsa, Yama, Tusita, Nimmaranati, Paranimmarati Vasavatti). A rebirth in this heavenly realm...

Tibetan illustration of Asaṅga receiving the AA from Maitreya in the Tuṣita heaven....

descend to meet the Buddha. The Buddha's mother, Maya, was reborn in the Tusita Heaven, and came down to visit Trāyastriṃśa heaven where her son taught...

mental image of the Bodhisattva (and presumed future Buddha) Maitreya in Tusita heaven. A biography the Chinese Yogācāra master and translator Xuanzang...

Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines"; 道行般若經) T280. The Scripture on the Tusita Heaven (佛說兜沙經.), part of the proto-Avatamsaka Sutra T313. Akṣobhya-vyūha...

Scriptures: The Lord replied, 'Maitreya, the best of men, will then leave the Tuṣita heavens, and go for his last rebirth. As soon as he is born he will walk...

achieves his aim." She is said, in Buddhist scriptures, to have been reborn in Tusita, where her son later visited her, paid respects and taught the dharma to...

words of the Sáriputta Sutta are supposed to refer to this descent from Tusita. The site of the city gate of Sankissa is one of the "unchangeable" spots...

which she foresaw the descent of the Bodhisattva (Buddha-to-be) from the Tuṣita heaven into her womb. This story has some parallels with the story of Jesus...

of a larger image illustrating the Lalitavistara Sūtra, Bodhisattva in Tusita Heaven. Hindu, Buddhist. 9th century AD, Borobudur, Level 3, 115 West Wall...

Maitreya and his future parents will preside upon his descent from the Tusita Heaven to Earth. They believe that he will also bring a utopian era upon...

cited by Boslooper tell of the descent of the future Bodhisattva from the "Tusita Body" into the mother's womb, the appearance of the Buddha in the mother...