84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།

  • rgya mtsho chen po bzhi
  • catvaro samudrāḥ
  • mahāsamudrā
  • Term
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  • four great oceans
  • རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
  • rgya mtsho chen po bzhi
  • catvaro samudrāḥ
Definition in this text:

Four oceans believed to surround the central mountain, Mt. Meru, in Indian cosmology.

  • four great oceans
  • རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེན་པོ་བཞི།
  • rgya mtsho chen po bzhi
  • mahāsamudrā
Definition in this text:

In Buddhist cosmology, the four oceans in between the four continents that are at the cardinal points of the flat disc of the world, with the gigantic Mount Sumeru in its center.