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རི་རབ། | Glossary of Terms
རི་རབ།
ri rab
sumeru
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According to ancient Buddhist cosmology, Meru is the great mountain forming the axis of the universe. At its summit lies Sudarśana, home of Śakra and his thirty-two gods, and on its flanks live the asuras. The mount has four sides facing the cardinal directions, each of which is made of a different precious stone. Surrounding it are several mountain ranges and the great ocean where the four great island continents lie: in the south, Jambudvīpa (our world); in the west, Godānīya; in the north, Uttarakuru; in the east, Pūrvavideha. Above it are the abodes of the gods of the realm of desire. Often also referred to as Mount Sumeru.
- Mount Meru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- Meru
See Mount Sumeru.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The mountain at the center of the world in ancient Indian cosmology, an axis mundi.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
- 須彌
In Buddhist cosmology, the great mountain at the center of the universe.
- Mount Meru
- རིའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ།
- ri’i rgyal po ri rab
- Sumeruparvatarāja
- Mount Meru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- meru
The great mountain at the center of the universe according to ancient Indian cosmology. At its summit lies Sudarśana city, home of Śakra (Indra) and his thirty-two gods.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
In Buddhist cosmology, the sacred mountain at the center of the world.
- Mount Meru
- རིའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ།
- ri’i rgyal po ri rab
- sumeru
- 須彌山
The sacred mountain considered to be at the center of the physical, metaphysical, and spiritual universe.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The geographical center of this realm according to Buddhist cosmology.
- Mount Meru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- Meru
The highest mountain at the center of our world according to traditional Buddhist cosmology.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
- Sumeru
The central mountain of the universe, by the reckoning of Buddhist cosmology, identified with Mount Kailas in western Tibet.
- Mount Meru
- རི་བོ་ལྷུན་པོ།
- ri bo lhun po
- Meru
The mountain at the center of a world system and surrounded by the four continents.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
In Buddhist cosmology, the mountain at the center of a world system surrounded by the four continents.
- Mount Meru
- རིའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ།
- ri’i rgyal po ri rab
- Sumeruparvata
The mountain in the center of the universe in Buddhist cosmology.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
In Buddhist cosmology, the sacred mountain at the center of the world.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
- Sumeru
According to the ancient Indian cosmological system, Mount Meru is a mountain which forms the centre of the universe.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
- Sumeru
In Buddhist cosmology, the mountain at the center of a world system surrounded by the four continents.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
In Buddhist cosmology, the mountain at the center of a world system surrounded by the four continents.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- meru
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- sumeru
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The mountain at the center of the world in Buddhist cosmology.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The central mountain of the universe, also called Mount Sumeru.
- Mount Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
In Buddhist cosmology, the great mountain at the center of the universe.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- sumeru
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The gigantic mountain in the center of the world, portrayed as a flat disk with the four continents around it. Also known as Meru.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The mountain in the center of the disk of the world with the four continents around it. Also known as Meru.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The great mountain at the center of the universe according to ancient Indian cosmology.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- sumeru
The great mountain at the center of the universe according to ancient Indian cosmology. At its summit lies Sudarśana city, home of Śakra (Indra) and his thirty-two gods. The mountain is also referred to as Mount Meru.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- sumeru
See “Meru.”
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The mountain in the center of the disk of the world, with the four continents around it. See also “Meru.”
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
- Sumeru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- Sumeru
In Buddhist cosmology, the mountain at the center of a world system surrounded by the four continents.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The highest mountain at the center of our world according to traditional Buddhist cosmology.
- Sumeru
- རིའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ།
- ri’i rgyal po ri rab
- Sumeru
The king of mountains; the axial mountain of the flat world in the exoteric cosmology.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- རི་རབ་ལྷུན་པོ།
- ri rab
- ri rab lhun po
- Sumeru
The highest mountain at the center of our world according to traditional Buddhist cosmology.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
In Buddhist cosmology, the great mountain at the center of the known universe.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The great mountain at the center of the universe according to ancient Indian cosmology.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The mountain in the center of the disc of the world with the four continents around it.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The mountain in the center of the disc of the world with the four continents around it.
- Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- sumeru
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The mountain located in the center of the world in Buddhist cosmology.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
- 須彌山
In Buddhist cosmology, the sacred mountain at the center of the world.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The central mountain according to Buddhist cosmology.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
A mythical mountain located at the center of the universe.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
Center of the universe according to Buddhist and Hindu cosmology.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ་ལྷུན་པོ།
- ri rab lhun po
- Sumeru
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
The great mountain at the center of the universe according to ancient Indian cosmology.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Sumeru
In Buddhist cosmology, the sacred mountain at the center of the world.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ།
- ri rgyal po ri rab
- Sumeru
The great mountain at the center of the universe, according to ancient Indian cosmology. At its summit lies Sudarśana city, home of Śakra (Indra) and his thirty-two gods.
- Mount Sumeru
- རིའི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ།
- ri’i rgyal po ri rab
- Sumeru parvatarāja
The great mountain at the center of the universe according to ancient Indian cosmology. At its summit lies Sudarśana city, home of Śakra (Indra) and his thirty-two gods. The mountain is also referred to as Mount Meru.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- sumeru
In Buddhist cosmology, the sacred mountain at the center of the world.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Mount Sumeru
- རི་རབ།
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- མེ་རུ།
- ri rab
- lhun po
- me ru
- Sumeru
The central mountain of the universe.
- Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The gigantic mountain in the center of the world, portrayed as a flat disk with the four continents around it. Also known as Sumeru.
- Meru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- Meru
- Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
- Meru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- meru
The highest mountain at the center of our world according to traditional Buddhist cosmology.
- Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The great mountain at the center of the universe according to ancient Indian cosmology.
- Meru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- Meru
- Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
According to ancient Indian cosmology, Meru is the great mountain forming the axis of the universe. At its summit lies Sudarśana, home of Śakra and his thirty-two gods, and on its flanks live the asuras. Meru has four sides facing the cardinal directions, each of which is made of a different precious stone. Surrounding it are several mountain ranges and the great ocean where the four great island continents lie: in the south, Jambudvīpa (our world); in the west, Godānīya; in the north, Uttarakuru; in the east, Pūrvavideha. Above it are the abodes of the gods of the realm of desire.
- Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
The highest mountain at the center of our world according to traditional Buddhist cosmology.
- Meru
- རི་རབ།
- ri rab
- Meru
A name for a large mountain, esp. the one at the center of the world according to Buddhist cosmology.
- Meru
- ལྷུན་པོ།
- lhun po
- meru
According to the ancient Indian cosmological system, Mount Meru is a mountain which forms the center of the universe.