Meru

Synonyms for "meru" (6 found)

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25 translations across 15 languages.

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Burmese

2 entries
  • မြင်းမိုရ် name (abode)
  • မြင်းမိုရ်တောင် name (abode)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 須彌山 /须弥山 name (abode)

Hindi

4 entries
  • मेरु name (abode)
  • मेरु पर्वत name (abode)
  • रत्नसानु name (abode)
  • सुमेरु name (abode)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 須弥山 name (abode)

Khmer

1 entries
  • ភ្នំព្រះសុមេរុ name (abode)

Korean

1 entries
  • 수미산 name (abode)

Lao

4 entries
  • ສະເໝນ name (abode)
  • ສິເນຣຸ name (abode)
  • ສຸເມຣຸ name (abode)
  • ສເມນ name (abode)

Marathi

1 entries
  • मेरू name (abode)

Pali

1 entries
  • Meru name (abode)

Sanskrit

1 entries
  • मेरु name (abode)

Shan

1 entries
  • လွႆသဝ်မိူင်း name (abode)

Tamil

1 entries
  • மகா மேரு பருவதம் name (abode)

Thai

1 entries
  • เขาพระสุเมรุ name (abode)

Tibetan

1 entries
  • ཪི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ་ name (abode)

Vietnamese

1 entries
  • Núi Tu-di name (abode)

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2003, J. Dina Bagdel, John C. Huntington Buddhist Cosmology: Environment of Meditative Transformation: Mount Meru, John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel, Robert A. F. Thurman, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, page 66, Buddhist realizations and transformations take place in a sacred meditational space known as Mount Meru, or Sumeru. In Western-language literature, the Mount Meru system is often construed as the "Buddhist universe," but this description is misleading as it implies a singular phenomenon. The Mount Meru system is indeed an expression of Buddhist cosmology, but it describes structure of the cosmos.

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2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.

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It was in 1902, six years after the killings, however, that a church and school were built near Akeri, specifically at Nkoaranga on the slopes of Mount Meru (Baroin 1995, 3).

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