非想非非想處

Chinese

		(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa	to think; to believe; to suppose to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss	(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa	(be) not; wrong; blame (be) not; wrong; blame; Africa	to think; to believe; to suppose to think; to believe; to suppose; to wish; to want; to miss	a place; location; spot a place; location; spot; point; office; department; bureau; respect; to reside; to live; to dwell; to be in; to stay; get along with; to be in a position of; deal with
trad. (非想非非想處)		非	想	非	非	想	處
simp. (非想非非想处)		非	想	非	非	想	处

Etymology

Calque of Sanskrit नैवसंज्ञानासंज्ञायतन (naivasaṃjñānāsaṃjñāyatana) or Pali nevasaññānāsaññāyatana, both literally meaning “the sphere of neither conceptualization nor non-conceptualization”.

Tibetan equivalent is འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་འདུ་ཤེས་མེད་མིན་སྐྱེ་མཆེད ('du shes med 'du shes med min skye mched).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): fēixiǎngfēifēixiǎngchù

  (Zhuyin): ㄈㄟ ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄈㄟ ㄈㄟ ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄔㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fei¹ soeng² fei¹ fei¹ soeng² cyu³

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: fēixiǎngfēifēixiǎngchù
    • Zhuyin: ㄈㄟ ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄈㄟ ㄈㄟ ㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄔㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: feisiǎngfeifeisiǎngchù
    • Wade–Giles: fei¹-hsiang³-fei¹-fei¹-hsiang³-chʻu⁴
    • Yale: fēi-syǎng-fēi-fēi-syǎng-chù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feisheangfeifeisheangchuh
    • Palladius: фэйсянфэйфэйсянчу (fɛjsjanfɛjfɛjsjanču)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵ feɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fei¹ soeng² fei¹ fei¹ soeng² cyu³
    • Yale: fēi séung fēi fēi séung chyu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fei¹ soeng² fei¹ fei¹ soeng² tsy³
    • Guangdong Romanization: féi¹ sêng² féi¹ féi¹ sêng² qu³
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fei̯⁵⁵ sœːŋ³⁵ fei̯⁵⁵ fei̯⁵⁵ sœːŋ³⁵ t͡sʰyː³³/

Noun

非想非非想處

1. (～天) (Buddhism) the “sphere of neither perception nor nonperception”, the fourth and highest of the four levels of the immaterial realm

Synonyms

• 非有想非無想處／非有想非无想处
• 非想非非想天
• 非有想非無想天／非有想非无想天

Derived terms

• 非非想 (fēifēixiǎng)

 

See also

• 想入非非 (xiǎngrùfēifēi)