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Concept
Mount Meru
Summary
Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes. The mountain is also mentioned in some scriptures of non-Indian based religions such as Taoism which was influenced by the arrival of Buddhism in China. There is no clear identification of Mount Meru with a particular geophysical location.
Many famous Hindu, Jain and Buddhist temples have been built as symbolic representations of this mountain. The "Sumeru Throne" 須彌座 xūmízuò style base is a common feature of Chinese pagodas. The highest point (the finial bud) on the pyatthat, a Burmese-style multi-tiered roof, represents Mount Meru.
Etymologically, the proper name of the mountain is Meru (Sanskrit: Meru), to which is added the approbatory prefix su-, resulting in the meaning "excellent Meru" or "wonderful Meru". Meru is also the name of the central bead in a mālā.
In other languages, Mount Meru is pronounced:
Assamese: মেৰু পর্বত (Meru Pôrbôt)
Bengali: মেরু পর্বত (Meru Porbot)
Burmese: မြင်းမိုရ်တောင် (mjɪ̰ɴ mò tàʊɰ̃)
Cebuano: Bukid Meru
Chinese: 須彌山 (Xūmíshān)
Gujarati: મેરૂ પર્વત (Meru Parvat)
Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi: मेरु पर्वत (Meru Parvat)
Ilocano: Bantay Meru
Japanese: 須弥山 (Shumisen)
Javanese: ꦱꦼꦩꦺꦫꦸ (Semeru)
Kannada: ಮೇರು ಪರ್ವತ (Meru Parvata)
Khmer: ភ្នំព្រះសុមេរុ (Phnom Preah Someru) or (Phnom Preah Somae)
Korean: 수미산 (Sumisan)
Malayalam: മഹാമേരു പർവ്വതം (Mahameru Parvatham)
Mongolian: Сүмбэр Уул (Sümber Uul)
Odia: ମେରୁ ପର୍ବତ (“Meru Pôrbôtô”)
Old Maldivian: ސުމޭރު-މަންދަރަ "Sumēru-Mandara" (sometimes spelt as Ṣumeru-Mandara)
Pāli: Sineru
Punjabi: ਮੇਰੂ ਪਰਬਤ (Meru Parbat)
Tagalog: Bulkang Meru
Tamil: மகா மேரு மலை (Maha Meru Malai)
Telugu: మేరు పర్వతం (Meru Parvatam)
Sinhala: මහා මේරු පර්වතය (Maha Meru Parvathaya)
Tibetan: ཪི་རྒྱལ་པོ་རི་རབ་
Thai: เขาพระสุเมรุ (Khao phra sumen)
Vietnamese: Núi Tu-di
The dimensions attributed to Mount Meru — which all refer to it as a part of the Cosmic Ocean, along with several other statements that describe it in geographically vague terms (e.
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