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): ㄈㄟㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄈㄟㄈㄟㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄔㄨˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): fei¹ soeng² fei¹ fei¹ soeng² cyu³

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: fēixiǎngfēifēixiǎngchù
  - Zhuyin: ㄈㄟㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄈㄟㄈㄟㄒㄧㄤˇ ㄔㄨˋ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: feisheangfeifeisheangchuh
  - IPA ^(key): /feɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ feɪ̯⁵⁵ feɪ̯⁵⁵ ɕi̯ɑŋ²¹⁴⁻²¹¹ ʈ͡ʂʰu⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - 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
  - IPA ^(key): /fei̯⁵⁵ sœ̽ːŋ³⁵ fei̯⁵⁵ fei̯⁵⁵ sœ̽ːŋ³⁵ t͡ʃʰyː³³/

Noun

非想非非想處

(～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)