place

Meru

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The cosmic mountain of Indic cosmology around which worlds are arranged. Not Olympus, not a generic mountain, and not every later “axis” slogan.

Also known as Sumeru

Buddhist traditions

  • Meru appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra attests Mount Sumeru as the cosmic mountain around which worlds are arranged. Indic cosmology in that sūtra, not Olympus and not a generic world-axis slogan.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.