Pāli Dictionary

pubbavideha

pubbastemvidehastem

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • 불교 우주론에서 수미산 동쪽에 있는 사대주 중 하나인 동승신주

  • the eastern continent of Buddhist cosmology, one of the four mahādīpas surrounding Mount Sineru

  • AN 3.80

    tasmiṃ sahassadhā loke sahassaṃ candānaṃ, sahassaṃ sūriyānaṃ, sahassaṃ sinerupabbatarājānaṃ, sahassaṃ jambudīpānaṃ, sahassaṃ aparagoyānānaṃ, sahassaṃ uttarakurūnaṃ, sahassaṃ pubbavidehānaṃ… ayaṃ vuccat'ānanda, sahassī cūḷanikā lokadhātu.

Encyclopedia

Pubbavideha
Other

  • 불교 우주론에서 한 세계를 이루는 네 대륙 중 동쪽에 위치하며, 전륜성왕이 순회할 때 처음 방문하는 대륙.

  • The eastern of the four continents that make up a world-system in Buddhist cosmology, the first visited by a wheel-turning monarch on his tour.

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