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Cosmology
While Buddhist cosmology overlaps greatly with broader Hindu-Indian cosmology, it has developed quite differently from its early roots and has its own complex of myths and sacred places, directions and realms full of implications for practice. This category covers works that explore how Buddhists understand the world our our place within it.
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Abhirati
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aka Land of Extreme Delight in the East
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Heavens
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Hells
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Mount Sumeru
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aka Mount Meru
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Other Worlds and Worlds Beyond (General)
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Pure Lands
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Realms of Existence
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Animals
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Demi-Gods or Asuras
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Devas
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Hell Realms
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Human Realm
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Hungry Ghosts or Pretas
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Sukhâvatî
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aka Western Paradise
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aka Blissful Land of the West
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| Aiko Gibo: Mass Media Shaman or Missionary of the Other World | Inoue, Nobutaka | 1992 |
| Ascetics, Aristocrats, and the Lotus Sutra: The Construction of the Buddhist Universe in 11th Century Japan | Deal, William Edward | 1989 |
| Breaking the Circle: Death and the Afterlife in Buddhism | Becker, Carl Bradley | 1993 |
| Breaking the Darkness: Images of Reality in Shin Buddhist Faith | Hirota, Dennis | 1991 |
| The Cause of Birth in the Pure Land as Shown in the Original Texts of the Sukhâvatîvyûha-sûtras | Inagaki, Hisao | 1960 |
| Emakimono Depicting the Pains of the Damned | Gutierrez, Fernando G | 1967 |
| Emptiness Thought and the Concept of the Pure Land in Nishitani: In the Light of Imagination and the Body | Hase, Shôtô | Nov. 1997 |
| Hakkô-ichû: The Concept of Universal Hierarchy as Abstracted from Japanese Shinto | Hamilton, Phyllis M. T | 1950 |
| Historical Transformations of Japanese Cosmology: A Search for Patterns | Fukue, Hitoshi | 1993 |
| Idea of Evolution in the Creation Story of Tenrikyo Doctrine | Iida, Teruaki | 1968 |
| Ikai: Der Diskurs zu 'Anderen Welt' also Manifestation der japanischen Selbstfindungs-Debatte | Gebhardt, Lisette | 1996 |
| Kata-imi et kata-tagae: Étude sur les interdits de direction à l'époche Heian | Frank, Bernard | 1958 |
| Maboroshi, the Otherworldy Overtones in Kawabata Yasunari's The Lake | Ashton, Elizabeth Ann | 1980 |
| Mountains and Their Importance for the Idea of the Other World in Japanese Folk Religion | Hori, Ichirô | 1966 |
| The Origin of the Pure Land | Fujita, Kôtatsu | 1996 |
| The Pattern of Matsuri: Cosmic Schemes and Ritual Illusions in Japanese Festivals | Gilday, Edmund T | 1987 |
| Pure and Impure Lands | Fujita, Kôtatsu | 1987 |
| The Pure Land and the Kingdom of God | Doi, Masatoshi | 1976 |
| Rising from the Lotus: Two Bodhisattvas from the Lotus Sutra as a Psychodynamic Paradigm for Nichiren | Jaffe, Paul D | 1986 |
| La Roi Mâra du Sixième Ciel et le mythe médiéval de la création du Japon | Iyanaga, Nobumi | 1996 |
| Takasago: The Symbolism of the Pine | Gardner, Richard Alvin | 1992 |
| The Time of Ôjôden: Narrative and Salvation in Japanese Pure Land Buddhism | Bathgate, Michael Robert | 2006 |
| Tokugawa-Period Disputes between Shugen Organizations and Onmyôji over Rights to Practice Divination | Hayashi, Makoto | 1994 |
| Visions of Excess and Excesses of Vision: Women and Transgression in Japanese Myth | Grapard, Allan G | 1991 |
| What is Truly Meant by the 'Pure Land' | Bandô, Shôjun | 1977 |
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