Pāli Dictionary
Part of speech
noun · masculine
cosmology
無想有情;無想天眾生(住於色界無想天、無心識的天神)
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.
approximate
Encyclopedia
Asaññasattā
Other無想天有情,因修得第四禪並厭棄想的作用而投生此處,僅存色身而無心識,直到一念生起便從此界殞歿。
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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