四空處

(四空處, 四空处)

(or[lang id =1028]四空天) (sa) catur-ārūpya brahmalokas; also [lang id =1028]四無色界 and see [lang id =1028]四空定. The four immaterial or formless heavens, arūpa-dhātu, above the eighteen (sa) brahmalokas:

(1) [lang id =1028]空無邊處 (sa) ākāśānantyāyatana, also termed [lang id =1028]虛空 [lang id =1028]處 the state or heaven of boundless space;

(2) [lang id =1028]識無邊處 (sa) vijñānanāntyāyatana, of boundless knowledge;

(3) [lang id =1028]無所有處 ākiñcanyāyatana, of nothing, or nonexistence;

(4) [lang id =1028]非想非非想處 (sa) naivasanjñānasañjnāyatana, also styled [lang id =1028]非有想非無想 the state of neither thinking nor not thinking (which may resemble a state of intuition). Existence in the first state lasts 20, 000 great kalpas, increasing respectively to 40, 000, 60, 000 and 80, 000 in the other three.

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又名四無色， 或無色界， 即空無邊處、 識無邊處、 無所有處、 非想非非想處， 乃修四空處定的人所得的正報， 因此四處的眾生於五蘊中無色蘊， 只有受想行識的四蘊， 亦即無物質的色身， 而只有微妙的精神存在， 亦無依報的國土宮殿， 故名無色界， 或四空處。