Trāyastriṃśa

Translations of
Trāyastriṃśa
EnglishHeaven of the Thirty-Three
Sanskritत्रायस्त्रिंश
(IAST: trāyastriṃśa)
Palitāvatiṁsa
Burmeseတာဝတိံသာ
(MLCTS: tàwədèɪɰ̃ðà)
Chinese忉利天
(Pinyin: Dāolìtiān)
Japanese忉利天
(Katakana: トウリテン)
(Rōmaji: tōriten)
Khmerត្រ័យត្រិង្ស (alt. ត្រៃត្រិង្ស)
តាវត្តិង្ស

(UNGEGN: traitrings
tāvattings
)
Korean도리천
(Hanja: 忉利天)
(RR: doricheon)
Sinhalaතව්තිසාව
(tavtisāva)
TagalogTasatimsa
Tibetanསུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གསུམ་པ་
(Wylie: sum cu rtsa gsum pa
THL: sumchu tsa sumpa
)
Thaiดาวดึงส์
VietnameseĐao Lợi Thiên
(Chữ Nôm: 忉利天)
Glossary of Buddhism

Trāyastriṃśa (Sanskrit: त्रायस्त्रिंश, pronounced [t̪ɾɑː.jɐs̪.t̪ɾĩ.ɕɐ], romanizedtrāyastriṃśa; Pali: tāvatiṁsa; lit.'of the thirty-three [heavenly beings]') is a celestial realm of the devas in Buddhist cosmology and constitutes the second of the six heavens of the desire realm (kāmadhātu). The term is a Sanskrit adjectival form derived from the numeral त्रयस्त्रिंशत् (trayastriṃśat), meaning "thirty-three", a reference to the pantheon of devas who preside over it, modeled after the thirty-three Vedic deities. It is ruled by Śakra.