經律異相 1.65

1.65

Asaṃjñasattva heaven (the Loutan jing calls it 'No-Human-Perception'). They take the joy of dhyāna as their food. Their lifespan is five hundred kalpas, though some live less, still counted within the rūpadhātu. Their radiance surpasses that of Phalaphala. Heterodox practitioners mistake it for nirvāṇa (from the twentieth fascicle of the Dīrgha Āgama; the *Vibhāṣā* chapter says: 'Destroying perceptions, they are born into non-perception, possessing only the form aggregate and the mental formations aggregate; once a slight perception enters and arises, they then die.').