མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས། | Glossary of Terms

མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས།

mtha’ yas pa’i nam mkha’ mtha’ yas

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beings of the boundless infinity of space

The Ākāśagarbha Sūtra

beings of the boundless infinity of space

མཐའ་ཡས་པའི་ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས།

mtha’ yas pa’i nam mkha’ mtha’ yas

Definition in this text:

The first of the four classes of gods of the formless realm. The activity field called “infinite as the sky,” or “boundless space,” is one of the 28 classes of gods in the formless realm.

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