Word glossary
Terms and definitions
Every technical term used in this portal, with a short gloss, a longer note, and the chapters where it matters.
2 terms
- Bhoga-bhūmiभोगभूमि
- Land of enjoyment, sustained by wish-fulfilling trees.
- Pleasant but spiritually inert: no asceticism, no vows, no liberation.
- Chapter 3
- Karma-bhūmiकर्मभूमि
- Land of action where liberation is possible.
- Bharata, Airāvata and Videha in the two and a half continents — fifteen in all. Contrasted with bhoga-bhūmi, the lands of enjoyment.
- Chapter 3