kāmadhātu
Tibetan: འདོད་ཁམས་
Tibetan (Wylie): dod khams
Tibetan (phonetics): do kham
English term: Desire Realm
English Definition: The lowest of the three realms of existence, it receives its name because the beings there are attached to pleasured derived from the five sense organs, and so the dominant force that moves them is desire. Compared to the gods of the other two realms (form and formless realms), the beings of the desire realm have coarser material bodies. The desire realm is subdivided into five or six realms: hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, demigods and gods (the two latter categories sometimes counted as only one). Rebirth in the desire realm occurs as a result of accumulating mainly negative karma (thus being born as a hell being, hungry ghost or animal), a mix of virtuous and non-virtuous karma (humans), and mainly positive karma (demigods and gods). Finally, the desire realm is sometimes refered to as “the world” (འཇིག་རྟེན་, loka), “the worldly realm” (འཇིག་རྟེན་པའི་ཁམས་, lokadhātu) or “sphere/domain” (སྤྱོད་པ་, avacara)
Spanish: Plano del Deseo
