For the Pure Lands found in Mahayana Buddhism, see Pure land.
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The Śuddhāvāsa (Pāli: Suddhāvāsa; Tib: Wylie: gtsang-ma'i gnas lnga) worlds, or "Pure Abodes", are distinct from the other worlds of the rūpadhātu in that they do not house beings who have been born there through ordinary merit or meditative attainments, but only those Anāgāmins ("Non-returners") who are already on the path to Arhat-hood and who will attain enlightenment directly from the Śuddhāvāsa worlds without being reborn in a lower plane. Every Śuddhāvāsa deva is therefore a protector of Buddhism. (Brahma Sahampati, who appealed to the newly enlightened Buddha to teach, was an Anagami from a previous Buddha[1]). Because a Śuddhāvāsa deva will never be reborn outside the Śuddhāvāsa worlds, no Bodhisattva is ever born in these worlds, as a Bodhisattva must ultimately be reborn as a human being.
Since these devas rise from lower planes only due to the teaching of a Buddha, they can remain empty for very long periods if no Buddha arises. However, unlike the lower worlds, the Śuddhāvāsa worlds are never destroyed by natural catastrophe. The Śuddhāvāsa devas predict the coming of a Buddha and, taking the guise of Brahmins, reveal to human beings the signs by which a Buddha can be recognized. They also ensure that a Bodhisattva in his last life will see the four signs that will lead to his renunciation.
^Susan Elbaum Jootla "Teacher of the Devas": The Wheel Publication No. 414/416 (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society, 1997) article link at Access to Insight
Śuddhāvāsa (Pāli: Suddhāvāsa; Tib: Wylie: gtsang-ma'i gnas lnga) worlds, or "PureAbodes", are distinct from the other worlds of the rūpadhātu in that they do...
time. (Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje 2012, p. 1991) Very important to all pureabodes is the 'Source' (Tibetan: ཆོས་འབྱུང, Wylie: chos 'byung; Sanskrit: dharmodaya)...
literally of "great fruit"). The pureabodes (suddhavasa, meaning something like pure, unmixed, similar to the connotation of "pure bred German shepherd"), are...
certainty about the non-returner who can take multiple rebirths in the five "PureAbodes". They do, however, only have one more rebirth in the realm of the senses...
was also given the posthumous title of Bilqis Makani (lit. 'Lady of the PureAbode'). She was also wrongly referred to as Balmati Begum by Manrique. She...
The PureAbodes are also a significant aspect of Buddhist soteriology because the deities born there are anāgāmins. As with the function of the pure lands...
achieved the state of an Anāgāmi and was reborn in the Avṛha heaven in the PureAbodes. As a deity, he once tried to visit the Buddha, but collapsed and was...
cosmology, Maheśvara resides in Akaniṣṭha, highest of the Śuddhāvāsa ("PureAbodes") wherein Anāgāmi ("Non-returners") who are already on the path to Arhathood...
reborn into the human world after death, but into the heaven of the PureAbodes, where only anagamis live. There, they will attain full enlightenment...
Pure Land Buddhism or Pure Land School (Chinese: 淨土宗; pinyin: Jìngtǔzōng; Japanese: 浄土仏教, romanized: Jōdo bukkyō; Korean: 정토종; RR: Jeongto-jong; Vietnamese:...
garden round a very pure and sweet tank within the grounds of his mansion. Truly it was a pleasant spot and heart-ravishing and pureabode. Owing to excess...
public sanitation and improvement of drainage, and the provision of piped pure water to the population. On 14 November 1971, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah left...
sanctuary, most likely located in that city, was the Edurku ("house, pureabode"), which might had been a part of Eugalgal ("house of great storms"),...
human existence, or any lower world, after death, but is reborn in the "PureAbodes", where he will attain Nirvāṇa, having eradicated the first five fetters...
Jahangir honored her with the title of ‘Bilquis Makani’ (lit. 'Lady if PureAbode'). She gave birth to two daughters of Salim, both of whom died during...
spiritually as well as physically beneath Vaikuntha and Kailasha, the celestial abodes of Vishnu and Shiva. In the hymns of the Atharvaveda, Svarga is conceptualised...
the goddess instantly showered the lady's house with gooseberries made of pure gold. The first hymn of the Kanakadhara Stotra is as follows: aṅgaṃ hareḥ...
Shuddadvaita (Sanskrit: śuddhādvaita "pure non-dualism") is the "purely non-dual" philosophy propounded by the Hindu philosopher Vallabha (1479-1531 CE)...
and asuras to generate nectar. Without any guile, Vinata said that it was pure white. Kadru contradicted her and said that its tail was black. An argument...
India. It is one of the 108 Divya Desams which are considered the sacred abodes of Vishnu in the Sri Vaishnava tradition. The name of the city of 'Thiruvananthapuram'...
called Vishnuloka (Viṣṇuloka), and Tirunatu (Tirunāṭu) in Tamil, is the abode of Vishnu, the supreme deity in the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism,: 17 ...
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