Alternative spellings of this word include Lokottar.

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In Hinduism

Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर) or the Lokottaramārga refers to the “transcendental path”, according to the Vārāṇasīmāhātmya verse 1.116-125.—Accordingly, “[...] The gods, beginning with Brahmā, also proceed along the Laukikamārga. The God of gods, Virūpākṣa, who is established in the Lokottara-mārga [i.e., mārge lokottare sthitaḥ], proceeds beyond [the institutes of] sacrifice, giving and asceticism. But those sages who are on that path, delighting in the knowledge of the self, also proceed along the Lokottaramārga, abandoning their bodies. [...]”.

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Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.

In Buddhism

Theravada (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: Access to Insight: A Glossary of Pali and Buddhist TermsTranscendent; supramundane (see magga, phala, and nibbana).Source: Journey to Nibbana: Patthana Dhama

Lokuttara means greater than worldly things, higher than worldly thing, beyond worldly thing, or supramundane.

Source: Buddhist Information: A Survey of Paramattha Dhammas

Lokuttara is beyond the world.

Source: Pali Kanon: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines

'supermundane',

is a term for the 4 paths and 4 fruitions of sotāpatti, etc. (s. ariya-puggala), with Nibbāna as ninth.

Hence one speaks of '9 supermundane things' (nava-lokuttara-dhamma). Cf. prec.

Source: Dhamma Study: Cetasikas

Cittas which experience;

Source: Pali Kanon: A manual of Abhidhamma

Loka + Uttara = Lokuttara. Here Loka, means the five aggregates. Uttara means above, beyond or that which transcends. It is the supra mundane consciousness that enables one to transcend this world of mind body

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Theravāda is a major branch of Buddhism having the the Pali canon (tipitaka) as their canonical literature, which includes the vinaya-pitaka (monastic rules), the sutta-pitaka (Buddhist sermons) and the abhidhamma-pitaka (philosophy and psychology).

Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhism

1) Lokottara (लोकोत्तर) is the name of an Uṣṇīṣa king [i.e., Uṣṇīṣarāja] mentioned as attending the teachings in the 6th century Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa: one of the largest Kriyā Tantras devoted to Mañjuśrī (the Bodhisattva of wisdom) representing an encyclopedia of knowledge primarily concerned with ritualistic elements in Buddhism. The teachings in this text originate from Mañjuśrī and were taught to and by Buddha Śākyamuni in the presence of a large audience (including Lokottara).

2) Lokottarā (लोकोत्तरा) is also the name of a Yakṣiṇī mentioned as attending the teachings in the 6th century Mañjuśrīmūlakalpa.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)

Source: academia.edu: A Study and Translation of the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर) refers to “transcendental (dharma)”, according to the Gaganagañjaparipṛcchā: the eighth chapter of the Mahāsaṃnipāta (a collection of Mahāyāna Buddhist Sūtras).—Accordingly, “How then, son of good family, is the Bodhisattva supported by the presence of the Buddha as unhindered and uninterrupted eloquence (pratibhāna)? Son of good family, there are the Bodhisattvas’ twenty-four sorts of eloquence. What are those twenty-four? [...] 18) eloquence adorned with the congregations of gods; 19) eloquence of cutting off all doubts; 20) eloquence of the mundane (laukika) and transcendental (lokottara) dharma; [...]”.

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Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.

Languages of India and abroad

Pali-English dictionary

Source: BuddhaSasana: Concise Pali-English Dictionary

lokuttara : (adj.) super-mundane; transcendental.

Source: Sutta: The Pali Text Society's Pali-English Dictionary

Lokuttara refers to: see under lokiya.

Note: lokuttara is a Pali compound consisting of the words loka and uttara.

Source: Sutta: Pali Word Grammar from Pali Myanmar Dictionary

1) lokuttara (လောကုတ္တရ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[lokuttara+ṇaso atthabhūto etesaṃ atthīti lokuttaro．saṃ,ṭī,2．191．aṃ,ṭī,2．42．aṃ,ṭī,3．31．]
[လောကုတ္တရ+ဏသော အတ္ထဘူတော ဧတေသံ အတ္ထီတိ လောကုတ္တရော။ သံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၂။ ၁၉၁။ အံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၂။ ၄၂။ အံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၃။ ၃၁။]

2) lokuttara (လောကုတ္တရ) [(ti) (တိ)]—
[loka+uttara．uttiṇṇattāti uttarā,lokato uttarāti lokuttarā．abhi,ṭṭha,1．9va．paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha．1,12va,213,341．paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,2．157．mahāni,ṭṭha．145,291．visuddhi,ṭī,1．1va8．visuddhi,ṭī,2．43,77．lokato uttarasīti lokuttaraṃ．．．tato uttaṇṇanti lokuttaraṃ．vibhāvinī．76．lokaṃ taratīti lokuttaraṃ,lokaṃ uttaratīti lokuttaraṃ．abhi,ṭṭha,1．259．paṭisaṃ,ṭṭha,2．15va．157．saṃ,ṭī,2．191．aṃ,ṭī,2．42．aṃ,ṭī,3．31．visuddhi,ṭī,1．31．loke uttarā visiṭṭhā lokuttarā．ma,ṭṭha,4．116．]
[လောက+ဥတ္တရ။ ဥတ္တိဏ္ဏတ္တာတိ ဥတ္တရာ၊ လောကတော ဥတ္တရာတိ လောကုတ္တရာ။ အဘိ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၉ဝ။ ပဋိသံ၊ ဋ္ဌ။ ၁၊ ၁၂ဝ၊ ၂၁၃၊ ၃၄၁။ ပဋိသံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၁၅၇။ မဟာနိ၊ ဋ္ဌ။ ၁၄၅၊ ၂၉၁။ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၁ဝ၈။ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိ၊ ဋီ၊ ၂။ ၄၃၊ ၇၇။ လောကတော ဥတ္တရသီတိ လောကုတ္တရံ．．．တတော ဥတ္တဏ္ဏန္တိ လောကုတ္တရံ။ ဝိဘာဝိနီ။ ၇၆။ လောကံ တရတီတိ လောကုတ္တရံ၊ လောကံ ဥတ္တရတီတိ လောကုတ္တရံ။ အဘိ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၁။ ၂၅၉။ ပဋိသံ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၂။ ၁၅ဝ။ ၁၅၇။ သံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၂။ ၁၉၁။ အံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၂။ ၄၂။ အံ၊ ဋီ၊ ၃။ ၃၁။ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိ၊ ဋီ၊ ၁။ ၃၁။ လောကေ ဥတ္တရာ ဝိသိဋ္ဌာ လောကုတ္တရာ။ မ၊ ဋ္ဌ၊ ၄။ ၁၁၆။]

[Pali to Burmese]

Source: Sutta: Tipiṭaka Pāḷi-Myanmar Dictionary (တိပိဋက-ပါဠိမြန်မာ အဘိဓာန်)

1) lokuttara—

(Burmese text): လောကုတ္တရာ-(၁) လောကကို-ကူးခပ်-လွန်-မြောက်-ကျော်လွန်-တတ်သော။ (၂) လောကကို-လွန်-ကောင်းစွာလွန်-တတ်သော။ (၃) လောကကို ကောင်းစွာလွန်ပြီးသော။ (၄) လောကမှ လွန်မြောက်တတ်သော။ (၅) လောကထက်လွန်ကဲသော။ (၆) လောက၏ အဆုံးသို့ ကူးမြောက်တတ်သော။ (၈) လောကမှ-ထွက်မြောက်-လွန်မြောက်-ပြီးသော။ (၉) လောက၌ မတည်သော၊ (၁ဝ) လောက၌-မလိမ်းကျံ-မကပ်ငြိ-မလူးမကပ်-သော။ (၁၁) လောကဖြင့်-မလိမ်းကျံ-မကပ်ငြိ-မလူးမကပ်-သော။ (၁၂) လောက၌ လွတ်မြောက်သော။ (၁၃) လောကဖြင့်လွတ်မြောက်သော။ (၁၄) လောကမှ လွတ်မြောက်သော။ (၁၅) လောက၌မယှဉ်သော။ (၁၆) လောကနှင့်မယှဉ်သော။ (၁၇) လောကမှ မယှဉ်သော။ (၁၈) လောကမှ-စင်ကြယ်-အထူးသဖြင့် စင်ကြယ်-သော။ (၁၉) လောကမှ ထတတ်သော။ (၂ဝ) လောကမှ ဆုတ်နစ်ဖဲခွါသော။ (၂၁) လောက၌ မငြိတတ်သော။ (၂၂) လောက၌ မယူအပ်သော။ (၂၃) လောက၌ မဖွဲ့အပ်သော။ (၂၄) လောကကို-ကောင်းစွာ-အကြွင်းမဲ့-ဖြတ်တတ်သော။ (၂၅) လောက-ကို-ကောင်းစွာ-အကြွင်းမဲ့-ဖြတ်ပြီးသော။ (၂၆) လောကကိုငြိမ်းစေတတ်သော။ (၂၇) လောကကို ငြိမ်းစေပြီးသော။ (၂၈) လောက၏ ခရီးလမ်းမဟုတ်သော။ (၂၉) လောက၏ တည်ရာမဟုတ်သော။ (၃ဝ) လောက၏ အရာမဟုတ်သော။ (၃၁) လောကနှင့် မဆက်ဆံသော။ (၃၂) လောကကို ပျို့အန်တတ်သော။ (၃၃) လောကကို တစ်ဖန်ပြန်၍ မမျိုတတ်သော။ (၃၄) လောကကို ပယ်စွန့်တတ်သော။ (၃၅) လောကကိုမစွဲယူ-မစွဲလမ်းတတ်-သော။ (၃၆) လောကကို ဖြန့်ကြဲပစ်-တတ်လော။ (၃၇) လောကကို မပေါင်းစုတတ်သော။ (၃၈) လောကကို-ဖျက်ဆီး-ငြိမ်းစေ-တတ်သော။ (၃၉) လောကကို မတောက်လောင် စေတတ်သော။ (၄ဝ) လောကကို-ကောင်းစွာလွန်၍-လွှမ်းမိုး၍-တည်သော။ (၄၁) လောက၌ ထူးခြားသော။ (၄၂) လောကထက်သာ၍ ထူးခြားသော။ မူရင်းကြည့်ပါ။

(Auto-Translation): 1. One who can transcend the world. 2. One who can surpass the world well. 3. One who has fully transcended the world. 4. One who can attain beyond the world. 5. One who is superior to the world. 6. One who can reach the end of the world. 7. One who has exited from the world. 8. One who does not reside in the world. 9. One who is untainted by the world. 10. One who is not entangled or mixed with the world. 11. One who is liberated from the world. 12. One who is free from the world. 13. One who is unattached to the world. 14. One who is not comparable with the world. 15. One who is not mixed with the world. 16. One who is pure, especially clean from the world. 17. One who arises from the world. 18. One who is not troubled by the world. 19. One who does not take from the world. 20. One who does not create from the world. 21. One who can surpass the world without leaving any residue. 22. One who has passed beyond the world without any trace. 23. One who can calm the world. 24. One who has calmed the world. 25. One who is not of the world's path. 26. One who does not belong to the world. 27. One who is not of worldly possessions. 28. One who does not relate to the world. 29. One who can reject the world. 30. One who does not cling to the world. 31. One who can disperse the world. 32. One who does not aggregate the world. 33. One who can destroy the world and calm it. 34. One who cannot make the world blaze. 35. One who transcends the world completely. 36. One who is remarkable within the world. 37. One who is extraordinary beyond the world. 38. See the original.

2) lokuttara—

(Burmese text): (၁) လောကုတ္တရာ-တရား-အနက်-ရှိ-ကိုပြတတ်-သော။ (၂) လောကုတ္တရာတရားနှင့်ယှဉ်သော။

(Auto-Translation): (1) The Law of Conservation - capable of revealing the essence. (2) Compared to the Law of Conservation.

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Pali is the language of the Tipiṭaka, which is the sacred canon of Theravāda Buddhism and contains much of the Buddha’s speech. Closeley related to Sanskrit, both languages are used interchangeably between religions.

Marathi-English dictionary

Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionary

lōkōttara (लोकोत्तर).—a (S) Beyond what is common; excelling, surpassing, extraordinary, transcendent.

Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-English

lōkōttara (लोकोत्तर).—a Beyond what is common; excelling.

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Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.

Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर).—a. extraordinary, uncommon, unusual; लोकोत्तरा च कृतिः (lokottarā ca kṛtiḥ) Bv.1.69.7; Uttararāmacarita 2.7.

-raḥ a king. °वादिन् (vādin) m. pl. Name of a Buddhist school.

Lokottara is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms loka and uttara (उत्तर).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर).—adj. (compare Sanskrit id., Pali lokuttara; compare lokika, laukika), super-worldly, especially (but not invariably) said of a Buddha and all his aspects and activities, according to the Lokottaravādin school: °rasya Buddhasya Śākyamunino Mahāvastu i.48.15; °rā(ḥ), said of Buddhas, i.96.12; (na hi kiṃcit samyaksaṃbuddhānāṃ lokena samaṃ,) atha khalu sarvam eva maharṣiṇāṃ lokottaraṃ i.159.3 (a summary statement of the doctrine of the L. school); various functions of the Buddha specifically called lok° Mahāvastu i.167.17, 18 (see s.v. niṣaṇṇa); 168.1, 2, 3, 4, 9; in Divyāvadāna 161.25 no creature can comprehend a Buddha's lokottara-cittaṃ, but any creature can understand his laukikaṃ (q.v.) cittaṃ (line 23); (Bodhisattvas) budhyanty āśayasaṃyuktā loke lokot- tare tathā Mahāvastu i.86.4, are enlightened in regard to the world and the supramundane, which I think may mean (in the dogmatic sense) what pertains to the Buddha, tho Senart thinks differently; °raṃ arthaṃ (supramundane goal) prārthayamāno Bodhisattvo Mahāvastu ii.279.8; °rābhiḥ kathā- bhiḥ Sukhāvatīvyūha 59.10, see s.v. lokika; in Laṅkāvatāra-sūtra 156.15 (compare 157.9, 11) jñāna, and in 237.2—3 ff. pāramitā, are of three kinds, laukika (of worldly persons and heretics), lokottara (of śrāvakas and pratyekabuddhas), and lokottaratama (of Bodhisattvas); here the word can hardly have its technical dogmatic meaning.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर).—[adjective] surpassing the world or what is common; unusual, extraordinary.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—a work, quoted by Hemādri in Dānakhaṇḍa p. 462.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Lokottara (लोकोत्तर):—[from loka > lok] mf(ā)n. excelling or surpassing the w°, beyond what is common or general, unusual, extraordinary, [Kathāsaritsāgara; Rājataraṅgiṇī] etc.

2) [v.s. ...] ([in the beginning of a compound]) ind., [Hemacandra’s Pariśiṣṭaparvan]

3) [v.s. ...] m. an uncommon person, [Uttararāma-carita]

4) [v.s. ...] or n. (?) Name of [work]

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit words: Louttara, Loguttara.

[Sanskrit to German]

Lokuttara in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

Hindi dictionary

Source: DDSA: A practical Hindi-English dictionary

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर) [Also spelled lokottar]:—(a) supernatural, transcendental; extra-worldly; extraordinary; hence ~[tā] (nf).

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Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Lōkōttara (ಲೋಕೋತ್ತರ):—[adjective] excelling or surpassing the world; beyond what is common or general; unusual; extraordinary.

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Lōkōttara (ಲೋಕೋತ್ತರ):—

1) [noun] that which is extraordinary or uncommon.

2) [noun] a man who excels or surpasses all others of his class in the world; a man of extraordinary merit.

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

Nepali dictionary

Source: unoes: Nepali-English Dictionary

Lokottara (लोकोत्तर):—n. supernatural; extraordinary; difficult to obtain from worldly matters;

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Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.

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Maha Prajnaparamita Sastra (by Gelongma Karma Migme Chödrön)

Part 11 - Non-existence of the thing given < [Chapter XX - The Virtue of Generosity and Generosity of the Dharma]

I. The essence of the perfections resides in the mind < [Part 1 - Obtaining easily an immense qualification]

II. Knowledge of the aspect of the paths < [VI. Acquiring the knowledges of the paths and the aspects of the paths]

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A Manual of Abhidhamma (by Nārada Thera)

The Four Classes Of Consciousness < [Chapter I - Different Types of Consciousness]

Section on Planes < [Chapter IV - Analysis of Thought-Processes]

Summary of Feeling < [Chapter III - Miscellaneous Section]

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Triveni Journal

Aesthetic Experience < [January – March, 1978]

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Patthana Dhamma (by Htoo Naing)

Chapter 5 - Hetu paccayo (or root condition)

Chapter 1 - Citta (or consciousness)

Chapter 7 - Adhipati paccayo (or predominence condition)

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A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts, Madras (by M. Seshagiri Sastri)

Page 236 < [Volume 31 (1951)]

Page 7 < [Volume 31 (1951)]

Page 77 < [Volume 21 (1918)]

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