རུས་པའི་རི། | Glossary of Terms

རུས་པའི་རི།

rus pa’i ri

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mountain of bones

The Sūtra of Nanda’s Going Forth

mountain of bones

རུས་པའི་རི།

rus pa’i ri

Definition in this text:

This is a reference to saṃsāra, which is called a “mountain of bones” since the skeletons of the beings born therein would, if accumulated over countless rebirths, be enough to form a mountain.

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