Pāli Dictionary

sineru

Part of speech

noun · masculine

cosmology

  • 须弥山；佛教宇宙观中位于世界中心的神话山

  • 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.

approximate

Compound structure

analyses: 1

sīnearu
  1. sīnesīna

    已沉没的；已沉降的；已退让的

  2. aru

    伤口；疮；旧伤

Encyclopedia

Sineru
Place

  • 位于世界中心的山峰，没入海中八万四千由旬，又高出海面八万四千由旬，顶上是忉利天，四周环绕七重山脉。

  • 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.

SN 22.99Thig 14.1DN 32Snp 3.11

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