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འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས། | Glossary of Terms
འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
’jig rten gyi khams
lokadhātu
- Term
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world realm of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- གླིང་བཞི་པོའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- gling bzhi po’i ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon, its own Mount Meru, continents, desire, form, and formless realms, etc. Also rendered here as world realm.
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world relam of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon, its own Mount Meru, continents, desire, form, and formless realms, etc.
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon.
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds that is illumined by one sun and moon, and that has its own Mount Meru, continents, desire, form, and formless realms, etc.
- World system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world realm of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- World realm
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world relam of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- World-system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon, its own Mount Meru, continents, etc.