Pāli Dictionary
Part of speech
noun · masculine
cosmology
無想有情;想を欠く色界の天
an unconscious/impercipient being; a class of fine-material devas reborn without perception
DN 15
ayaṃ sattamī viññāṇaṭṭhiti. asaññasatt'āyatanaṃ n'evasaññān'āsaññ'āyatanam'eva dutiyaṃ.
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Encyclopedia
Asaññasattā
Other第四禅を修め、想の価値を否定した結果、天界に生まれる無想の有情で、想念が生じてその境涯から死没するまで、心を持たず色身のみで存在し続ける。
Unconscious beings reborn in a heavenly realm after cultivating the fourth jhāna and rejecting the value of perception, who remain form-only and without mind until an idea arises and they fall from that state.
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