- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- མི་ཁོམ།
- mi khom pa
- mi khom
- akṣaṇa
- Term
- inopportune states
- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- mi khom pa
- akṣaṇa
The Sanskrit literally means “without leisure”; this refers to being born in a state in which one will not have the opportunity to meet with a buddha or their teachings. Eight situations are typically listed: (1) being born in a hell realm, (2) as an animal, (3) as a hungry ghost, (4) as a long-life god, (5) in a borderland or non-Buddhist country, (6) having wrong views, (7) as someone with impaired faculties who is unable to understand the teachings, or (8) in a time or place where no buddha has come.
- inopportune states
- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- mi khom pa
- akṣaṇa
The eight conditions unfavorable for the practice of the Buddhist path: birth (1) in the hells, (2) among the pretas, (3) as an animal, (4) among the long-lived gods, and in the human realm (5) among barbarians, (6) among extremists, (7) in places where a buddha has not appeared or the Buddhist teachings do not exist, and (8) without adequate faculties to understand the teachings.
- unfortunate
- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- mi khom pa
- akṣaṇa
The Sanskrit has its origins in the vocabulary of dice gambling, but in Buddhism refers to rebirths, human or otherwise, in which one will be unable to practice the Dharma. The Tibetan (also found as mi khoms pa) is based on the opposite of khom, khoms meaning leisure, opportunity, freedom. There is a list of eight unfortunate rebirths: as hell beings, pretas, animals, or long-living deities; in lands without the Dharma; with defective faculties; holding wrong views; and in a world where a buddha has not appeared.
- unfortunate
- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- mi khom pa
- akṣaṇa
The Sanskrit has its origins in the vocabulary of dice gambling, but in Buddhism refers to rebirths, human or otherwise, in which one will be unable to practice the Dharma. The Tibetan (also found as mi khoms pa) is based on the opposite of khom, khoms meaning leisure, opportunity, freedom. There is a list of eight unfortunate rebirths: as hell beings, pretas, animals, or long-living deities; in lands without the Dharma; with defective faculties; holding wrong views; and in a world where a buddha has not appeared.
- places that preclude a perfect human birth
- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- mi khom pa
- akṣaṇa
See also UT22084-029-001-7012.
- unfortunate states
- མི་ཁོམ།
- mi khom
- akṣaṇa
See “eight unfortunate states.”
- unfree states
- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- mi khom pa
- akṣaṇa
Literally, “without leisure.” This refers to being born in a state in which one will not have the opportunity to meet with a buddha or their teachings. Eight situations are typically listed: (1) being born in a hell realm, (2) as an animal, (3) as a hungry ghost, (4) as a long-life god, (5) in a borderland or non-Buddhist country, (6) having wrong views, (7) as someone with impaired faculties who is unable to understand the teachings, or (8) in a time or place where no buddha has come.
- unfree states of existence
- མི་ཁོམ་པ།
- mi khom pa
- akṣaṇa
See “eight unfree states.”