Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries. It consists of a temporal and a spatial cosmology. The temporal cosmology describes the timespan of the creation and dissolvement of alternate universes in different aeons.

Buddhist cosmology describes a universe consisting of an inconceivable number of world-systems which come into being, exist for a while and eventually decay — in an unending cycle of creation and destruction.

2022年5月28日 · Learn Buddhism for Beginners and Westerners. Buddhism has an extremely complex and detailed cosmology that is both spatial (different worlds or realms) and temporal (how the universe comes into being and is then dissolved).

2020年1月25日 · Buddhist cosmology can be divided into two related kinds: spatial cosmology, which describes the arrangement of the various worlds within the universe temporal cosmology, which describes how those worlds come into existence, and how they pass away.

Virtually every theological tendency within the Buddhist tradition addressed the cosmological sciences from its special perspective — seeing the universe as the stage for a drama of salvation cast in terms of its own particular philosophical and theological predilections.

The Buddhist abhidharma (special topics of knowledge) and Kalachakra (cycles of time) literatures provide two distinct presentations of cosmology, each for a different purpose.

2019年11月26日 · Cosmology refers to the origin, process, and structure of the universe. In traditional Buddhist philosophy, the cosmology of the universe is marked by infinite vastness in both space and time.

According to the developed cosmology of the Abhidharma, samsāra embraces thirty-one levels or realms of existence—that is, there are thirty-one basic classes of beings comprising the round of rebirth, and any being may be born at any one of these levels.

The 14 th century Thai Buddhist cosmology, the 3 Worlds According to King Ruang, describes how their faces are smooth and very beautiful, a thousand times brighter than the Moon and Sun, and with only one hand they can illuminate 10 000 world systems.

Virtually every theological tendency within the Buddhist tradition addressed the cosmological sciences from its special perspective—seeing the universe as the stage for a drama of salvation cast in terms of its own particular philosophical and theological predilections.