Buddhist cosmology | Wikipedia audio article
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Buddhist cosmology


00:01:16 1 Introduction
00:03:14 2 Spatial cosmology
00:03:51 2.1 Vertical cosmology
00:06:43 2.1.1 Formless Realm (Ārūpyadhātu अरुपधातु)
00:07:44 2.1.1.1 Arupa Bhumi (Arupachara Brahmalokas or Immaterial/Formless Brahma Realms)
00:08:39 2.1.2 Form Realm (Rūpadhātu)
00:10:59 2.1.2.1 Pure Abodes
00:13:13 2.1.2.2 Bṛhatphala worlds भ्रतफल
00:16:49 2.1.2.3 iŚubhakṛtsna/i worlds
00:18:42 2.1.2.4 Ābhāsvara worlds
00:20:28 2.1.2.5 Brahmā worlds
00:22:20 2.1.3 Desire Realm (Kāmadhātu / कामधातु)
00:25:31 2.1.3.1 Heavens
00:26:01 2.1.3.2 Worlds of Sumeru सुमेरू । सुनेरू
00:29:57 2.1.3.3 Earthly realms
00:33:19 2.1.3.4 Hells (Narakas नरक)
00:37:19 2.1.3.4.1 Cold Narakas
00:38:18 2.1.3.4.2 Hot Narakas
00:39:03 2.1.4 The foundations of the earth
00:40:43 2.2 Sahasra cosmology
00:41:41 2.2.1 Maha Kalpa
00:43:11 3 Temporal cosmology
00:46:22 3.1 Vivartakalpa
00:48:22 3.2 Vivartasthāyikalpa
00:49:51 3.2.1 First antarakalpa
00:50:00 3.2.2 Second antarakalpa
00:53:13 3.3 iSaṃvartakalpa/i
00:54:24 3.4 iSaṃvartasthāyikalpa/i
00:55:02 3.5 Other destructions
00:55:24 4 Mahayana views
00:56:07 5 See also



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SUMMARY
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Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to the Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. 
It consists of temporal and spatial cosmology, the temporal cosmology being the division of the existence of a 'world' into four discrete moments (the creation, duration, dissolution, and state of being dissolved; this does not seem to be a canonical division, however). The spatial cosmology consists of a vertical cosmology, the various planes of beings, their bodies, characteristics, food, lifespan, beauty and a horizontal cosmology, the distribution of these world-systems into an "apparently" infinite sheet of universes. The existence of world-periods (moments, kalpas), is well attested to by the Buddha.The historical Buddha (Gautama Buddha) made references to the existence of aeons (the duration of which he describes using a metaphor of the time taken to erode a rock by brushing it with a silk cloth, once per century), and simultaneously intimates his knowledge of past events, such as the dawn of human beings in their coarse and gender-split forms, the existence of more than one sun at certain points in time, and his ability to convey his voice vast distances, as well as the ability of his disciples (who if they fare accordingly) to be reborn in any one of these planes (should they so choose).