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• sinweiy

  27 Jul 11, 09:50

  

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• realization

  27 Jul 11, 09:55

    AMTF... how incredibly majestic!

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• Dawnfirstlight

  27 Jul 11, 16:22

  Our wise Buddha is the first on earth to know and share with us this incredible worlds  which is beyond our imagination. It is also beyond many heavenly gods' understanding. Each individual god can only see their own world and each claims to be the only true god.

• Leogirldreamer

  27 Jul 11, 19:02

  I saved the picture. First time i see after hearing so much of this Mountain mentioned in the Sutras. Wonderful !
• Aik TC

  27 Jul 11, 20:47

   

  Equivalent of Mt Sumeru on Earth is supposed to be Mount Kailas in South Western Tibet, sacred place to four religions, Jainism, Bon, Buddhism and Hinduism. It is also the abode of Lord Siva and the Buddha Demchog in Tibetan Buddhism.   

• sinweiy

  28 Jul 11, 09:09

  no sure if its as lated é»ƒå¿µç¥– a 金剛上師[http://www.budaedu.org/ghosa/L00106/] refered that Mount Sumeru could be the black hole where the stars obit around it due to its great gravitational pull, like moon obiting the earth and the earth obiting the sun.

  and that the black hole also obit the mind ground of Hua Yen world!

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• SevenEleven

  28 Jul 11, 09:19

  

  caption : Mt Kailash (6714m) 冈�波�峰

  Throughout Asia, stories exist of a great mountain in the centre of the world, from which flows the four sacred rivers that give life to the area that the river passes through. This myth originates from the Hindu epics, which speak of Mt Meru, home of the gods - as a vast column 84,000 leagues high, its summit kissing the heavens and its franks composed of gold, crystal, ruby and lapis lauzli.

  These Hindu accounts placed Mt Meru somewhere in the towering Himalaya but with time, Mt Meru increasing become associated with Mt Kailash. Although Mt Kailash is only 6714m, nobody have ever make it to the summit (although some nearly make it to the top but gave it up due to religious pressure) so no one can confirm if gods really reside there.  

  

  caption : The white coat of Mt Kailash after the snowstorm

  Mt Kailash does indeed lie at the centre of an area that is the key to the drainage system of the Tibetan plateau. Four of the great rivers of the Indian subcontinent does indeed originate here. The Karnali, which feed into the Ganges (south), the Indus (north), the Sutlej (west) and the Brahmaputra aka Yarlung Tsangpo (east).

  The four walls of Mt Kailash matches the cardinal points of the compass and its southern face is marked by the famous long vertical cleft stopping halfwaydown the horizontal lines on the rock face. This cleft is suppose to resemble a swastika (a Buddhist symbol of spiritual strength). But I find it to resemble a step ladder instead.

  Mt Kailash has long been an object for worship for four major religions. For the Hindus, it's the abode of Lord Shiva. To the Buddhist, it's the abode of Demchok (a warthful manifestation of Sakyamuni). To the Jains, the mountain is the site at which their first saint was emancipated and to the ancient Bonpo religion of Tibet, Mt Kailash was the sacred Yungdrung Gutseg (Nine stacked Swastika Mountain) upon which their founder Shenrab alighted from heaven.

   

• Dawnfirstlight

  28 Jul 11, 11:18

  Mount Sumeru in Chinese is 须弥山, am I correct ?

• sinweiy

  28 Jul 11, 12:22

  yes.

  須彌 Sumeru, also 須彌樓; 彌樓; 蘇彌樓; 修迷樓; later 蘇迷盧; the central mountain of every world, tr. as 妙高; 妙光, etc., wonderful height, wonderful brilliancy, etc.; at the top is Indra's heaven, or heavens, below them are the four devalokas; around are eight circles of mountains and between them the eight seas, the whole forming nine mountains and eight seas.

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• An Eternal Now

  29 Jul 11, 20:27

  There is vast interpretations of what Mount Sumeru means.

  Many people or teachers interprete it to be a real place located in this earth.

  My Master Shen Kai interpretes it in terms of space and the universe - a more modern interpretation of it.

• sinweiy

  29 Jul 11, 21:18

  ya, so did 黃念祖 and hence MCK as the milky way.

  

  

  we are southern part. :)

   

  i kind of like, just the name, Sumeru 須彌, without saying it is actually a "mountain" or as defined, the central "mountain" of every world. then it can be interprete as 須彌樓 storey or 蘇迷盧 place. not necessary a mountain.

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• Amitayus48

  1 Aug 11, 08:14

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• sinweiy

  6 Aug 11, 15:34

  GALAXIES
  The Buddhist scriptures described that there are "worlds shaped like flowers" - this corresponds to billowy intergalactic gas clouds (that contain billions of stars) observed by radio-telescopes. "Some are vast as the ocean, spinning like a turning wheel. Some are slender (eg. galaxies observable in Cetus, Pegasus and Hercules). Some are small. For they have countless forms. (Galaxies have countless shapes.) And they spin in various ways (Galaxies revolve around their nuclei.)... Some worlds are like a glowing wheel (Some galaxies have strong luminosity)."
  QUASARS
  Some world systems (galaxies) are described in the Buddhist scriptures to erupt violently like volcanoes. This corresponds to quasars that actively explode, ejecting incredible amounts of matter from the nuclei of galaxies.
  BLACK HOLES
  Some cosmic worlds are described in the Buddhist scriptures to be like the "Lion's mouth" which eat everything - this corresponds to Black Holes that devour everything within its gravitational reach.
  http://www.purifymind.com/UponYourself.htm

  oh, "Lion's mouth"?

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• Mindfulness

  6 Aug 11, 17:11

  I saw this picture somewhere before.
• Mindfulness

  6 Aug 11, 17:12

  Layers over layers like roti prata stacked on top of one another.