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བ་ལང་སྤྱོད། | Glossary of Terms
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ནུབ་ཀྱི་བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- བ་གླང་སྤྱོད།
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- ba glang spyod
- nub kyi ba lang spyod
- godānīya
- aparagodānīya
- avaragodānīya
- aparāntaka
- aparagoyāna
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- Place
One of the four main continents that surround Sumeru, the central mountain in classical Buddhist cosmology. It is the western continent, characterized as “rich in the resources of cattle,” thus its name “using cattle.” It is circular in shape, measuring about 7,500 yojanas in circumference, and is flanked by two subsidiary continents. Humans who live there are very tall, about 7.3 meters on average, and live for 500 years. It is known by the names: Godānīya, Aparāntaka, Aparagodānīya, or Aparagoyāna.
- Godānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- godānīya
A continent in the west.
- Godānīya
- བ་གླང་སྤྱོད།
- ba glang spyod
- godānīya
- Godānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- godānīya
- Godānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- godānīya
The western continent in Buddhist cosmology.
- Godānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- godānīya
One of the four continents of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, it is situated to the west of Mount Sumeru.
- Godānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- godānīya
The continent to the west of Mount Sumeru.
- Godānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- godānīya
In ancient Buddhist cosmology, the western of the four continents in the cardinal directions.
- Aparagodānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- aparagodānīya
The western continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, characterized as “rich in the resources of cattle.”
- Aparagodānīya
- བ་གླང་སྤྱོད།
- ba glang spyod
- aparagodānīya
The western continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, characterized as “rich in the resources of cattle.”
- Aparagodānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- aparagodānīya
- Aparagodānīya
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- aparagodānīya
The continent to the west. One of the four main continents that surround the central mountain in classical Buddhist cosmology.
- Avaragodānīya
- ནུབ་ཀྱི་བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- nub kyi ba lang spyod
- avaragodānīya
The western continent according to Buddhist cosmology. See also UT22084-072-007-68.
- Western Continent
- བ་ལང་སྤྱོད།
- ba lang spyod
- aparāntaka
- aparagodānīya
- aparagoyāna
The western continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, characterized as “rich in the resources of cattle.” It is named Aparāntaka (or sometimes Aparagodānīya or Aparagoyāna). It has a circular shape and is about 7,500 yojanas in circumference. Humans who live there are very tall, about 7.3 meters on average, and live for 500 years.