ཤར་ལུས་འཕགས་པོ་

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PUrvavideha

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pUrva videha

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[2838] ri rab kyi shar ngos rgya mtshor chags pa'i gling chen 'dir yod pa'i mi'i lus 'dzam gling pa las nyis 'gyur gyis cher 'phags pas na ལུས་འཕགས་ dang/ dbyibs zla gam kha nang du bstan pa lta bu/ nang dang g.yas g.yon gyi ngos gsum 'dzam gling dang 'dra bar dpag tshad stong phrag gnyis gnyis yod cing lcags ri'i phyogs kyi ngos gcig la dpag tshad sum brgya lnga bcu yod pa/ ...

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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.

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