Sattvaloka

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sattvaloka (P. sattaloka; T. sems can 'jig rten སེམས་ཅན་འཇིག་རྟེན་; C. zhongsheng shijian/youqing shijian) is translated as "world of sentient beings," "world of living beings," etc. It refers to the sentient beings (sattva) who inhabit a specific physical environment, called a "container world" (bhājanaloka ).[1][2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. sattvaloka
  2. ↑ Internet-icon.svg སེམས་ཅན་འཇིག་རྟེན་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
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