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བྱང་གི་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན། | Glossary of Terms
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ཀུ་རུ།
- བྱང་གི་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན་པ།
- བྱང་གི་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- byang gi sgra mi snyan
- sgra mi snyan
- ku ru
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- byang gi sgra mi snyan pa
- uttarakuru
- kuru
- kurava
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- Place
The continent to the north of Sumeru according to Buddhist cosmology. In the Abhidharmakośa, it is described as square in shape. Its human inhabitants enjoy a fixed lifespan of a thousand years and do not hold personal property or marry.
- Uttarakuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
The northern continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, characterized as “unpleasant sound.”
- Uttarakuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
- Uttarakuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
The northern continent of the four in ancient Indian cosmology.
- Uttarakuru
- བྱང་གི་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན་པ།
- byang gi sgra mi snyan pa
- uttarakuru
The name of the northern continent of Jambudvīpa where people live in perfect harmony. See Bhattacharya 2000.
- Uttarakuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
The northern continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, meaning “Unpleasant Sound.”
- Uttarakuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
The northern continent of the human realm according to Buddhist cosmology.
- Uttarakuru
- བྱང་གི་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- byang gi sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
The northern continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, literally meaning “northern unpleasant sound.”
- Uttarakuru
- བྱང་གི་སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- byang gi sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
The northern continent according to Buddhist cosmology. See also UT22084-072-007-70.
- Uttarakuru
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- uttarakuru
A mythical country in the north of India.
- Kuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- kuru
- Kuru
- ཀུ་རུ།
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- ku ru
- sgra mi snyan
- kuru
In Buddhist cosmology, it refers to (1) the continent to the north of Mount Sumeru, and (2) a land to the north of Jambudvīpa.
- Kuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- kuru
- Kuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- kuru
The northern continent in Buddhist cosmology.
- Kuru
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- kuru
(1) The continent to the north of Mount Sumeru. (2) A land to the north of Jambudvīpa.
- Kuru
- ཀུ་རུ།
- ku ru
- kuru
One of the sixteen great kingdoms of ancient India.
- Kurava
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- kurava
- kuru
In ancient Buddhist cosmology, the northern of the four continents in the cardinal directions, that of “Unpleasant Sound.”
- Unpleasant Sound
- སྒྲ་མི་སྙན།
- sgra mi snyan
- uttarakuru
- kurava
The continent to the north of Mount Meru according to Buddhist cosmology. In the Abhidharmakośa, it is described as square in shape and its human inhabitants enjoy a fixed lifespan, namely a thousand years, and do not hold personal property or marry.