ལུས་འཕགས་པོ

JH-ENG

PUrvavideha

JH-SKT

pUrvavideha; videha

OT

[2795] gling bzhi'i nang gses shig ste ri rab shar ngos kyi rgya mtshor yod pa'i gling chen/ gling de gzhan bas shing tA la bdun srid kyis 'phags pa'am der skye ba'i mi rnams lus che bas ming de ltar btags pa yin zhes bshad/ ...

JH-C

Comment: In Buddhist cosmology there are four large continents, each of which has two smaller continents (gling phran brgyad) next to it: In the center, is the monarch of mountains, ri rab (meru). The four continents and eight smaller continents are (1) ཤར་ལུས་འཕགས་པོ (videha), the eastern continent "land of [those with] superior/large bodies" with lus (deha) and ལུས་འཕགས (videha); (2) ལྷོ་འཛམ་བུ་གླིང (jambudvIpa), the southern continent "Jambu-tree land" with rnga yab (cAmara) and rnga yab gzhan (aparacAmara); (3) nub ba blang spyod (godanIya) the western continent "land of using cattle" with g.yo ldan (sAthA) and lam mchog 'gro (uttaramantriNa); (4) byang sgra mi snyan (kuru), the northern continent "land of unpleasant sound" with sgra mi snyan (kurava) and sgra mi snyan kyi zla (kaurava). Surrounding all of these is an outer rim of iron mountains.

JV

1 of གླིང་བཞི, Majestic Body continent

IW

Superior body, Videha (E continent

RY

Superior Body, Videha; Noble Body Purva Videha (eastern continent); Videha; great body [the eastern continent]

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