|
Results 1 - 2 from 2 for mount sumeru in 0.141 sec.
Hsien-tsang: Buddhist Records of the Western Countries
In this map, the world's lynchpin is the celestial Mount Sumeru or Meru, at whose feet lies the celestial lake from which springs four encircling rivers ... still center lie encircling continents, encircling oceans. No earthly mountain can be pointed to as Mount Sumeru, which reaches heaven itself; nor can Anavatapta Lake (literally, "Unheated Lake") be found. The dragon ...
www.iras.ucalgary.ca
Kailas and Manasarovar: Tibetan Mythology
Himachala or Himalaya; in their cosmography, the core of the universe was mount Meru, that of the 'blazing appearance' - situated beyond and to ... 'ang Dynasty, AD 618-907), is this account: "The mountain called Sumeru stands up in the midst of the great sea firmly ... (Modern versions of this legend place the scene of battle at Mount Everest.) Bibliography: A Mountain in Tibet by Charles Allen. The ...
www.iras.ucalgary.ca
More from this site
|
|
