Ākāśānantyāyatana
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ākāśānantyāyatana (P. ākāsānañcāyatana, T. nam mkha’ mtha’ yas skye mched ནམ་མཁའ་མཐའ་ཡས་སྐྱི་མཆེད་; C. kong wubian chu) is translated as "sphere of infinite space," "sphere of neither existence nor non-existence," etc. It is identified as:
- the fourth level of the formless realm (arūpadhātu) and
- the fourth of the four meditative absorptions of the formless realm (ārūpyāvacaradhyāna)