Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. It consists of a temporal...

and moral spheres of many contemporary Buddhist traditions. According to Akira Sadakata, the Buddhist cosmology is far more complex and uses extraordinarily...

Samsara, there is not the slightest difference between the two." Buddhist cosmology typically identifies six realms of rebirth and existence: gods, demi-gods...

Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the centre of all the physical, metaphysical...

Jainism, as well as early Buddhist texts. The concept of three worlds has a number of different interpretations in Hindu cosmology. Traditionally, the three...

and the six dimensions or classes of beings in the Bhavachakra. In Buddhist cosmology, Kama-Loka, Rupa-Loka, Arupa-Loka are the realms that are inhabited...

Implications of Tantric Buddhist Ritual". Journal of Buddhist Ethics. 14: 238–271. Sadakata, Akira (1997). Buddhist Cosmology: Philosophy and Origins...

Jain, and Buddhist cosmology. Mount Meru or Sumeru may also refer to: Mount Meru (Buddhism), the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology Mount Meru...

Kangrinboqe or Kailash) is the name of the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology. Etymologically, the proper name of the mountain is Meru (Pāli Meru)...

most detailed geography is that described in the Vāyu Purāṇa. The Buddhist cosmology divides the bhūmaṇḍala (circle of the earth) into three separate levels:...