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[['gro drug]] - six destinies of rebirth, 6 kinds of sentient beings, 6 migrations of beings, six classes of beings [JV]
In Buddhist cosmology, one world system comprises of a flat disc with a central mountain encircled by an ocean in which there are four major continents. This is orbited by the sun and moon. One thousand such worlds make "a thousand world-system". A thousand of these grouped together, make "a million world-system". A thousand of those make up "the billion world-system" (literally the "three-thousands") which is our universe, and the field of activity of our successive Buddhas such as Shakyamuni, a thousand million Buddhas appearing simultaneously, one in each world. [Peter Roberts]  


[['gro drug]] - six classes of beings [RY]


[['gro drug 'khrul pa'i snang ba]] - the deluded experiences of the six classes of beings [RY]
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[['gro ba rigs drug]] - 1) the six classes of beings, six destines, six kinds of beings, lokas. [six realms]. see {[['gro ba drug]]}. 2) a creature of the six realms [RY]
 
[['gro ba rigs drug]] - six classes of beings. Gods, demigods, human beings, animals, hungry ghosts, and hell beings. {[[lha]], [[lha ma yin]], [[mi]], [[dud 'gro]], [[yi dvags]], [[dmyal ba]]} [RY]
 
[['jig rten drug]] - Six worlds. The realms of the six classes of beings [RY]
 
[[gnas ris drug]] - Six realms. The realms of the six classes of beings [RY]
 
[[ma dag rigs drug gi 'jig rten]] - impure worlds of the six classes of beings [RY]
 
[[ma dag rigs drug 'jig rten gyi]] - the impure worlds of the six classes of beings [RY]
 
[[rigs drug]] - 1) six classes of beings, six realms, six families, the six kinds / classes [of beings], the six realms [the suffering of the six realms]; 2) The six families are the five buddha families with the sixth being the dharmakaya, six enlightened families of Kriya tantra [RY]
 
[[rigs drug 'jig rten]] - worlds of the six classes of beings [RY]
 
[[srul po]] - a sentient being who simultaneously experiences the sufferings of all six classes of beings; a being belonging mostly to the preta realm [RY]
 
 
 
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In Buddhist cosmology, one world system comprises of a flat disc with a central mountain encircled by an ocean in which there are four major continents. This is orbited by the sun and moon. One thousand such worlds make "a thousand world-system". A thousand of these grouped together, make "a million world-system". A thousand of those make up "the billion world-system" (literally the "three-thousands") which is our universe, and the field of activity of our successive Buddhas such as Shakyamuni, a thousand million Buddhas appearing simultaneously, one in each world. [Peter Roberts]