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The '''universal golden basis''' (Tib. གསེར་གྱི་ས་གཞི་, Wyl. ''gser gyi sa gzhi'') is, according to the ''[[Abhidharma]]'' literature, the base of the world on which rests [[Mount Meru]].
The '''universal golden basis''' (Tib. གསེར་གྱི་ས་གཞི་, [[Wyl.]] ''gser gyi sa gzhi'') is, according to the ''[[Abhidharma]]'' literature, the base of the world on which rests [[Mount Meru]].


==Alternative Terms/Translations==
==Alternative Terms/Translations==

Revision as of 03:59, 21 July 2017

The universal golden basis (Tib. གསེར་གྱི་ས་གཞི་, Wyl. gser gyi sa gzhi) is, according to the Abhidharma literature, the base of the world on which rests Mount Meru.

Alternative Terms/Translations

  • Golden disc, or foundation (Wyl. gser gyi dkyil 'khor)

Further Reading

  • Jamgön Kongtrul, Myriad Worlds (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1995), pages 109-110, ISBN 978-1559391887