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སྟོང་གསུམ། | Glossary of Terms

    སྟོང་གསུམ།

    stong gsum

  • Term
Publications: 6
Translation by Zachary Beer
  • Trichiliocosm
  • སྟོང་གསུམ་གྱི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
  • stong gsum gyi ’jig rten gyi khams
  • trisāhasralokadhātu

The largest universe spoken of in Buddhist cosmology, consisting of one billion smaller world systems.

Translation by Tenpa Tsering
  • Trichiliocosm
  • སྟོང་གསུམ།
  • stong gsum
  • trisāhasralokadhātu

A universe containing one billion worlds.

Translation by Ani Jinpa Palmo
  • Trichiliocosm
  • སྟོང་གསུམ་གི་འཇིགས་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
  • stong gsum gi ’jigs rten gyi khams
  • tri­sāhasra­loka­dhātu

A universe containing one billion worlds.

Translation by Andreas Doctor · Zachary Beer
  • Trichiliocosm
  • སྟོང་གསུམ།
  • stong gsum
  • trisāhasralokadhātu

A universe containing one billion worlds.

Translation by Benjamin Collet-Cassart
  • Trichiliocosm
  • སྟོང་གསུམ།
  • stong gsum

See “great trichiliocosm.”

Translation by Timothy Hinkle · Anna Zilman · Lama Tenzin Sangpo
  • Trichiliocosm
  • སྟོང་གསུམ།
  • stong gsum
  • trisāhasra­loka­dhātu

A universe containing one billion worlds.