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【loka
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'world', denotes the 3 spheres of existence comprising the whole universe, i.e. (1) the sensuous world (ka^ma-loka), or the world of the 5 senses; (2) the fine-material world (rúpa-loka), corresponding to the 4 fine-material absorptions (s. jha^na 1-4); (3) the immaterial world (arúpa-loka), corresponding to the 4 immaterial absorptions (s. jha^na, 5-8).
The sensuous world comprises the hells (niraya), the animal kingdom (tiraccha^na-yoni), the ghost-realm (peta-loka), the demon world (asura-nika^ya), the human world (manussa-loka) and the 6 lower celestial worlds (s. deva I). In the fine-material world (s. deva II) still exist the faculties of seeing and hearing, which, together with the other sense faculties, are temporarily suspended in the 4 absorptions. In the immaterial world (s. deva III) there is no corporeality whatsoever, only the four mental groups (s. khandha) exist there.
Though the term loka is not applied in the Suttas to those 3 worlds, but only the term bhava, 'existence' (e.g. M. 43), there is no doubt that the teaching about the 3 worlds belongs to the earliest, i.e. sutta-period, of the Buddhist scriptures, as many relevant passages show.
[南传佛教英文辞典]
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