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ཏི་སེ། | Glossary of Terms
ཏི་སེ།
ti se
Kailāsa
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A sacred mountain located in the Himālaya, thought by Buddhists and Hindus to be the abode of a number of important gods.
- Kailāśa
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Mount Kailash, often considered the earthly representation of Mount Meru, the central world-axis in numerous South Asian cosmographies. In its role as the center of the cosmos, Mount Kailash is considered to be the dwelling place of numerous Buddhist and non-Buddhist deities including the Hindu god Śiva, the tantric Buddhist god Cakrasaṃvara, Kubera, and others. The mountain is considered sacred to Hindus, Buddhists, and Bönpos.
- Kailāsa
- ཏི་སེའི་རི།
- ti se’i ri
- Kailāsa
Mount Kailash, often considered the earthly representation of Mount Meru, the central world-axis in numerous South Asian cosmographies. In its role as the center of the cosmos, Mount Kailash is considered to be the dwelling place of numerous Buddhist and non-Buddhist deities including the Hindu god Śiva, the tantric Buddhist god Cakrasaṃvara, Kubera, and others. The mountain is considered sacred to Hindus, Buddhists, and Bönpos.
- Kailāśa
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A mountain in the north of Jambudvīpa.
- Mount Kailāsa
- གངས་རི།
- gangs ri
- Kailāsa
- Mount Kailāśa
- ཏི་སེའི་གངས།
- ཏི་སེའི་གངས་ཅན།
- ti se’i gangs
- ti se’i gangs can
- Kailāśa
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- Mount Kailash
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Normally regarded the same as Mount Sumeru; in some contexts, though, it appears to be different.