The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (262 page)

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Mah
y
nasa
graha
.
Asankhata
:
Asaññasatta
(P
li, ‘unconscious being’). In Buddhism, a class of celestial beings who through the practice of meditation have reached a lofty state of existence in which mental activity is suspended for great lengths of time.
Asat
(Skt., ‘not-being’). Linguistically the opposite of
sat
(being), but not in the sense of annihilation or nihilism. Asat is the unimaginable, that which is in the absence of objects. It is thus the Absolute without qualities in
Advaita
Ved
nta.

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