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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་, ''ser gyi sa shyi'';  [[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==
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==Further Reading==
==Further Reading==
*[[Jamgön Kongtrul]], ''Myriad Worlds'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1995), pages 109-110.
*[[Jamgön Kongtrul]], ''Myriad Worlds'' (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 1995), pages 109-110, ISBN 978-1559391887


[[Category:Cosmology]]
[[Category:Cosmology]]
[[Category:Abhidharma]]
[[Category:Abhidharma]]

Latest revision as of 13:52, 3 January 2018

The universal golden basis (Tib. གསེར་གྱི་ས་གཞི་, ser gyi sa shyi; 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