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The highest planes are also broader in extent than the ones lower down, as discussed in the section on Sahasra cosmology. The height of these planes is expressed in yojanas, a measurement of very uncertain length, but sometimes taken to be about 4,000 times the height of a man, and so approximately 4.54 miles (7.31 km).
In esoteric cosmology, a plane is conceived as a subtle state, level, or region of reality, each plane corresponding to some type, kind, or category of being.. The concept may be found in religious and esoteric teachings which propound the idea of a whole series of subtle planes or worlds or dimensions which, from a center, interpenetrate themselves and the physical planet in which we live ...
[1] [2] [3] It can also refer to "three spheres," [3] "three planes of existence," [4] and "three realms". [4] Various schemas of three realms (tri-loka) appear in the main Indian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The Triloka Purusha, the figure who embodies the three worlds Transcending the Three Realms 超出三界圖, 1615 ...
During this time he wrote five books on Buddhism: Buddhism and Its Relation to Religion and Science, (Buddhist Research Society, 1984) The Buddha's Teaching and the Ambiguity of Existence, (Gunasena, 1978) The Buddha's Teaching: Its Essential Meaning, (M. D. Gunasena, Colombo, 1969) The Calm After the Storm, (M. D. Gunasena, 1970)
According to these, 31 existences comprise 20 existences of supreme deities (Brahmas); 6 existences of deities (Devas); the human existence (Manussa); and, lastly, 4 existences of deprivation or unhappiness (Apaya). Pure Land Buddhism of Mahayana believes in a special place apart from the 31 planes of existence called Pure Land. It is believed ...
The Six Paths [1] in Buddhist cosmology [2] are the six worlds where sentient beings are reincarnated based on their karma, which is linked to their actions in previous lives. These paths are depicted in the Bhavacakra ("wheel of existence"). [3] The six paths are: [4] the world of gods or celestial beings ; the world of warlike demigods
The Paṭṭhāna consists of three divisions (Eka, Duka, and Tīka). It provides a detailed examination of causal conditioning, (the Buddhist belief that causality — not a Creator deity — is the basis of existence), analyzing the 24 types of conditional relations (paccaya) in relation to the classifications in the matika of the ...
The books were widely circulated through the Muslim world, and even translated into Latin. [25] Under the caliph Al-Ma'mun, an astronomical program was instituted in Baghdad and Damascus with the stated intention of verifying Ptolemy's observations by comparing the predictions made from his models with new observations. The findings were ...