Pāli Dictionary
sineru
Part of speech
noun · masculine
cosmology
수미산; 불교 우주관에서 세계의 중심에 있는 신화적인 산
Mount Sineru (Meru), the mythical mountain at the centre of the universe in Buddhist cosmology
AN 10.29
tasmiṃ sahassadhā loke sahassaṃ candānaṃ sahassaṃ sūriyānaṃ sahassaṃ sinerupabbatarājānaṃ sahassaṃ jambudīpānaṃ sahassaṃ aparagoyānānaṃ sahassaṃ uttarakurūnaṃ
SN 22.99
hoti so, bhikkhave, samayo yaṃ sineru pabbatarājā ḍayhati vinassati na bhavati, na tv'ev'āhaṃ, bhikkhave, avijjānīvaraṇānaṃ sattānaṃ taṇhāsaṃyojanānaṃ sandhāvataṃ saṃsarataṃ dukkhassa antakiriyaṃ vadāmi.
Encyclopedia
Sineru
Place세계의 중심에 있는 산으로, 바다 밑으로 팔만사천 요자나 깊이 잠기고 같은 높이로 물 위로 솟아 있으며, 정상에는 도리천이 있고 일곱 겹의 산맥이 둘러싸고 있다.
The mountain at the center of the world, submerged to a depth of eighty-four thousand leagues in the ocean and rising the same height above it, crowned by the Tāvatiṃsa heaven and encircled by seven mountain ranges.
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