Cosmologia Budista

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În prealabil postat de Florin-Ionut

Florine,

Lăsînd la o parte celelalte lumi, ce spune credinţa budistă despre lumea noastră, despre forma Pămîntului?

Forma Pamantului in credinta budista este o insula triunghiulara, cu un varf bont, orientat spre sud.


The Buddhist cosmology divides the worlds into three separate levels:

• Kāmadhātu (Desire realm),
• Rūpadhātu (Form realm), and
• Arūpyadhātu (Formless realm).

In the Desire Realm is located Mount Sumeru which is said to be surrounded by four island-continents.

"The southernmost island is called Jambudvīpa (adica Pamantul)".

The other three continents of Buddhist accounts around Sumeru are not accessible to humans from Jambudvīpa.

Jambudvīpa is shaped like a triangle with a blunted point facing south.

In its center is a gigantic Jambu tree from which the continent takes its name, meaning "Jambu Island".


Jambudvīpa is the region where the humans live and is the only place where a being may become enlightened by being born as a human being.

It is in Jambudvīpa that one may receive the gift of Dharma and come to understand the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path and ultimately realize the liberation from the cycle of life and death.