Kāmadhātu
Kāmadhātu (T. 'dod khams འདོད་ཁམས་; C. yujie; J. yokukai; K. yokkhye 欲界) is translated as "sensory realm," "world of the five senses," "desire realm," etc. It is one of the three realms of existence within Buddhist cosmology. "The common characteristic of beings in all these realms is that they are all endowed with consciousness and five physical senses.[1]
This realm is characterized "as principally dependent on external objects of sensual desire such as form, sound, and so on."[2] If explained further by means of body, feelings, and resources: "the body is coarse, experience is predominantly a mixture of pleasure and pain, and beings depend mainly on coarse food."[2]
In this realm, there are six classes of beings that live within 36 abodes or regions.
Alternate translations
- world of the five senses (Gethin, Foundations of Buddhism)
- desire realm (Thupten Jinpa; Princeton Dictionary; et al)
- sense realm (Thupten Jinpa)
- sensuous realm (Princeton Dictionary)
Notes
- ↑ Gethin 1998, s.v. Chapter 5.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Thupten Jinpa 2017, s.v. "The Formation of World Systems".
Sources
Thupten Jinpa, ed. (2017), Science and Philosophy in the Indian Buddhist Classics, Volume 1: The Physical World, translated by Coghlan, Ian James, Wisdom Publications
External links
འདོད་ཁམས་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
Desire realm, Rigpa Shedra Wiki