Mount Meru (Buddhism)

Mount Meru (also Sumeru (Sanskrit) or Sineru (Pāli) or Kangrinboqe) is the name of the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology.

• He was like Mount Sumeru, king of mountains, rising up out of the great sea.
  • About Gautama Buddha, Vimalakirti Sutra, as translated by Burton Watson, Columbia University Press, 2000, ISBN: 0231106572.

• Painting of Sumeru found in Buddhist cave sanctuary in Xinjiang
• Mount Meru According to the Abhidharmakośa (Huntington Archive) [1] Stūpa as Mount Meru (ibid.) [2]