'dzam bu gling

'dzam bu gling

Southern continent of the human world according to traditional Indian cosmology, characterized as the "Rose Apple."

The "Rose-apple continent," a name for the human world in the ancient Indian cosmology, it can be translated perhaps as "this earth," or even as "India."

The continent (dvīpa) on which we live which, according to ancient South-Asian cosmology, is shaped like a jambū fruit (probably Syzygium cumini, the jambolan, Malabar plum, or Java plum; or possibly S. amarangense, the Java apple, rose-apple, or wax jambu).

The continent to the south of Mt. Sumeru, where according to Buddhist cosmology "the world as we know it" is located.

The name of the southern continent in Buddhist cosmology, which can mean the known world of humans or more specifically the Indian subcontinent. A gigantic, miraculous rose-apple (jambu) tree at the source of the great Indian rivers is said to give the continent its name.

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