光音天

光音天
Ābhāsvara, light and sound, or light-sound heavens, also styled 極光淨天, the heavens of utmost light and purity, i. e. the third of the second (sa) dhyāna heavens, in which the inhabitants converse by light instead of words; they recreate the universe from the hells up to and including the first (sa) dhyāna heavens after it has been destroyed by fire during he final series of cataclysms; but they gradually diminish in power and are reborn in lower states. The three heavens of the second (sa) dhyāna are 少光, 無量光, and 光音.

Chinese Buddhist terms dictionary (Chinese-English). . 2006.

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