84000 Glossary of Terms

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སྟོང་གི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་བྱུར་བུ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སྟོང་གི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་བྱུར་བུ།

  • stong gi ’jig rten gyi khams byur bu
  • sāhasra­loka­dhātu
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  • confined chiliocosm
  • སྟོང་གི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས་བྱུར་བུ།
  • stong gi ’jig rten gyi khams byur bu
  • sāhasra­loka­dhātu
Definition in this text:

A universe comprising one thousand world systems each with its four continents etc., according to traditional Indian cosmology. The Tibetan term byur bu that forms part of the term used in this text, and also means “brimful,” may be a rendering of Skt. cūlakabaddha with the sense of this first-order world system being “bound,” i.e., relatively compact or limited when compared to the second- and third-order universes.