五種天

(1) 名天 famous rulers on earth styled 天王, 天子;

(2) 生天 the highest incarnations of the six paths;

(3) 淨天 the pure, or the saints, from (sa) śrāvakas to (sa) pratyekabuddhas, and

(4) 義天 all bodhisattvas above the ten stages 十住, and

(5) 第一義天 a supreme heaven with bodhisattvas and Buddhas in eternal immutability; 涅槃經 23. Cf. 天宮.