འཇིག་རྟེན་བདུན་པོ། | Glossary of Terms

འཇིག་རྟེན་བདུན་པོ།

’jig rten bdun po

saptaloka
saptavyāhṛti

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seven worlds

Praise to Tārā with Twenty-One Verses of Homage

seven worlds

འཇིག་རྟེན་བདུན་པོ།

’jig rten bdun po

saptaloka
saptavyāhṛti

Definition in this text:

According to various purāṇas and the Atharvaveda, our world system is divided into fourteen worlds: the seven (higher) worlds consist of the earth and the heavenly realms above, and the seven netherworlds are subterranean realms.

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