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Immense Ocean [RY]
Infinite Ocean [deity = gang chen mtsho [IW]
Immense Ocean; Gangchentso, Infinite Ocean. Syn gang chen mtsho [RY]
Skt., Hemasagara. A name applied to the buddhas of the five families as they appear in Buddhist cosmology. Our universe, the Saha world, is said to appear within the thirteenth of twenty-five lotus flowers inside the alms bowl of Vairochana-Hemasagara. (The term is translated as Great Glacial Lake in Myriad Worlds) [ASP]