- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- འཇིག་རྟེན།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- ’jig rten
- lokadhātu
- loka
- Term
The term lokadhātu refers to a single four continent world-system illumined by a sun and moon, with a Mount Meru at its center and an encircling ring of mountains at its periphery, and with the various god realms above, thus including the desire, form, and formless realms.
The term can also refer to groups of such world-systems in multiples of thousands. A universe of one thousand such world-systems is called a chiliocosm (sāhasralokadhātu, stong gi ’jig rten gyi khams); one thousand such chiliocosms is called a dichiliocosm (dvisāhasralokadhātu, stong gnyis kyi ’jig rten gyi khams); and one thousand such dichiliocosms is called a trichiliocosm (trisāhasralokadhātu, stong gsum gyi 'jig rten gyi khams). A trichiliocosm is the largest universe described in Buddhist cosmology.
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world realm of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon, its own Mount Meru, continents, desire, form, and formless realms, etc. Also rendered here as world realm.
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world realm of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon, with its own Mount Meru, continents, desire, form, and formless realms, etc.
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon.
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds that is illumined by one sun and moon, and that has its own Mount Meru, continents, desire, form, and formless realms, etc.
- world system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world realm of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- world realm
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
This can refer to one world with its orbiting sun and moon, and also to groups of these worlds in multiples of thousands, in particular a world relam of a thousand million worlds, which is said to be circular, with its circumference twice as long as its diameter.
- world
- འཇིག་རྟེན།
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- loka
- lokadhātu
In this translation, the term “world” is generally used as a translation for both loka (“world”) and lokadhātu (which could also be rendered “galaxy” or “universe,” or more literally, a “container of worlds”), except in the case of the phrases “cosmos of a billion worlds” (trisāhasramahāsāhasralokadhātu), “galaxy of a thousand worlds” and “galaxy of a hundred thousand worlds,” since the English word “world” is flexible and can refer to both the earth and the universe more generally.
- world-system
- འཇིག་རྟེན་གྱི་ཁམས།
- ’jig rten gyi khams
- lokadhātu
Refers to any world or group of worlds illumined by one sun and moon, its own Mount Meru, continents, etc.