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The ten realms are part of Buddhist cosmology and consist of four higher realms and six lower realms derived from the Indian concept of the six realms of rebirth. [3] These realms can also be described through the degrees of enlightenment that course through them. [4] They have been translated in various ways.
Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe ... and then proceeds to extend his voice and powers throughout that realm. [10] ...
Skilful Means - A concept in Mahayana Buddhism. Routledge. ISBN 0203503791. Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-571-8. Soka Gakkai English Buddhist Dictionary Committee (2002). "Ten factors of life", in The Soka Gakkai Dictionary of Buddhism ...
Demi-god realm (Asura): [46] the demi-gods [47] is the third realm of existence in Buddhism. Asura are notable for their anger and some supernatural powers. They fight with the Devas (gods), or trouble the Manusya (humans) through illnesses and natural disasters. [46] They accumulate karma, and are reborn.
The Śūraṅgama Sūtra in Mahayana Buddhism regarded the 10 kinds of Xian as separate immortal realms between the deva and human realms. [6] [7] The six domains of the desire realm are also known as the "six paths of suffering", the "six planes", and the "six lower realms".
Early Buddhist descriptions divided the psychocosmic universe into three "worlds": the kāma-loka ("world of desire"), rūpa-loka ("world of form") and arūpa-loka (""world of non-form"). The kāma-loka dealt with the daily psychological possibilities of humans and was divided into five above mentioned worlds with the exception of the asura realm.
Arūpa-loka (the world of formlessness), a non-corporeal realm populated with four heavens. It is a possible rebirth destination for practitioners of the four formlessness stages of meditation (arūpa-samāpatti). [3] According to Theravada Buddhism, these are all the realms of existence outside of nirvana, which
The Trāyastriṃśa (Sanskrit; Pali Tāvatiṃsa) heaven is an important world of the devas in the Buddhist cosmology.The word trāyastriṃśa is an adjective formed from the numeral trayastriṃśat, "33" and can be translated in English as "belonging to the thirty-three [devas]".