mi mjed

mi mjed

A name for the "world" in which we live.

Indian Buddhist name for either the four-continent sun-and-moon world system in which Buddha Śākyamuni appeared, or a universe of a thousand million such worlds. The White Lotus of Compassion Sutra describes it as a world of ordinary beings in which desire, and so on, are "powerful" (Sanskrit: sahas), and hence the name. The Tibetan translation {mi mjed} (literally "no suffering") is usually defined as meaning "endurance," because beings there are able to endure suffering.

Indian Buddhist name for the thousand-million world universe of ordinary beings. It means "endurance," as beings there have to endure suffering.

Indian Buddhist name usually referring to the trichiliocosm, the world system that is the universe of ordinary beings, but sometimes only to our own world with four continents around Mount Meru. It means "endurance," as beings there have to endure suffering.

The present world.

This universe of ours, or the trichiliocosm (but sometimes referring to just this world system of four continents), presided over by Brahmā. The term is variously interpreted as meaning the world of suffering, of endurance, of fearlessness, or of concomitance (of karmic cause and effect).

This universe of ours, presided over by Brahmā. The term is variously interpreted as meaning the world of suffering, of endurance, of fearlessness, or of concomitance (of karmic cause and effect).

Universe and buddhafield of Śākyamuni; our world.

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