非想非非想處

Chinese
 
(be) not; wrong; blame
(be) not; wrong; blame; Africa
 
to think; to believe; to suppose
to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss
 
(be) not; wrong; blame
(be) not; wrong; blame; Africa
 
(be) not; wrong; blame
(be) not; wrong; blame; Africa
 
to think; to believe; to suppose
to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss
 
a place; location; spot
a place; location; spot; point; office; department; bureau; respect; to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to stay; get along with; to be in a position of; deal with
trad. (非想非非想處) 非 想 非 非 想 處
simp. (非想非非想处) 非 想 非 非 想 处

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit नैवसंज्ञानासंज्ञायतन (naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana) or Pali nevasaññānāsaññāyatana, both literally meaning “the sphere of neither conceptualization nor non-conceptualization”.

Tibetan equivalent is འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད ('du shes med 'du shes med min skye mched).

Pronunciation

Noun

非想非非想處

  1. (～天) (Buddhism) the “sphere of neither perception nor nonperception”, the fourth and highest of the four levels of the immaterial realm

Synonyms
  • 非有想非無想處／非有想非无想处
  • 非想非非想天
  • 非有想非無想天／非有想非无想天

Derived terms

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