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ལུས་འཕགས་པོ། | Glossary of Terms
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ལུས་དཔག
- ལུས་འཕགས་གླིང་།
- ལུས་འཕགས་པོ།
- ལུས་འཕགས།
- ཤར་གྱི་ལུས་འཕགས།
- lus ’phags po
- lus ’phags
- lus dpag
- shar gyi lus ’phags
- lus ’phags gling
- pūrvavideha
- videha
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One of the four main continents that surround Sumeru, the central mountain in classical Buddhist cosmology. It is the eastern continent, characterized as “sublime in physique,” and it is semicircular in shape. The humans who live there are twice as tall as those from our southern continent, and live for 250 years. It is also called Pūrvavideha.
- Pūrvavideha
- ལུས་འཕགས།
- lus ’phags
- pūrvavideha
The eastern continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, characterized as “sublime in physique”
- Pūrvavideha
- ལུས་འཕགས་པོ།
- lus ’phags po
- pūrvavideha
- Pūrvavideha
- ལུས་འཕགས།
- lus ’phags
- pūrvavideha
The continent to the east.
- Pūrvavideha
- ལུས་འཕགས་པོ།
- lus ’phags po
- pūrvavideha
One of the four continents of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, it is situated to the east of Mount Sumeru.
- Pūrvavideha
- ཤར་གྱི་ལུས་འཕགས།
- shar gyi lus ’phags
- pūrvavideha
The eastern continent according to Buddhist cosmology. See also UT22084-072-007-66.
- Videha
- ལུས་དཔག
- lus dpag
- videha
- Videha
- ལུས་འཕགས།
- lus ’phags
- videha
- Videha
- ལུས་འཕགས་གླིང་།
- lus ’phags gling
- videha
The eastern continent in Buddhist cosmology.
- Videha
- ལུས་འཕགས་པོ།
- lus ’phags po
- videha
The continent to the east of Mount Sumeru.