- གླིང་བཞི་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- gling bzhi pa’i ’jig rten gyi khams
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- four continent world system
- གླིང་བཞི་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- gling bzhi pa’i ’jig rten gyi khams
A world system formed by four great island continents. In this world system, a central mountain, Sumeru, is surrounded in the four cardinal directions by Jambudvīpa (our world) in the south, Godānīya in the west, Uttarakuru in the north, and Pūrvavideha in the east.
- four-continent world system
- གླིང་བཞི་པའི་འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- gling bzhi pa’i ’jig rten gyi khams
A world system formed by four great island continents. In this world system, a central mountain, Sumeru, is surrounded in the four cardinal directions by Jambudvīpa (our world) in the south, Godānīya in the west, Uttarakuru in the north, and Pūrvavideha in the east.