Pāli Dictionary

brahmaloka

brahmastemlokastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine


cosmology

  • 梵天界;梵世;ブラーマの世界

  • the Brahma-world; the realm of the Brahmas; the highest celestial worlds comprising the fine-material and immaterial realms

  • Snp 5.16

    ayaṃ loko paro loko, brahmaloko sadevako, diṭṭhiṃ te n'ābhijānāti, gotamassa yasassino.

  • Snp 3.5

    ko sujjhati muccati bajjhatī ca, ken'attanā gacchati brahmalokaṃ, ajānato me muni brūhi puṭṭho, bhagavā hi me sakkhi brahmajjadiṭṭho, tuvañ'hi no brahmasamo'si saccaṃ, kathaṃ upapajjati brahmalokaṃ jutima.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 2

brahmālokā
  1. brahmābrahma

    梵天(ぼんてん);創造神;梵天界の天人

  2. lokāloka

    世界;宇宙;世間

brahmaālokā
  1. brahma

    梵天(ぼんてん);創造神;梵天界の天人

  2. ālokāāloka

    光;光明;明るさ;視覚

Encyclopedia

  • 仏教の宇宙観における天界の最高層で、梵天が住む二十の天からなる。この境涯への転生は、大いなる徳と禅定の成就が相まった結果である。

  • The highest tier of celestial worlds in Buddhist cosmology, comprising twenty heavens inhabited by the Brahmas, rebirth into which results from great virtue combined with meditative attainment.

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