On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c5.35
On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v1.c5.35
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The seven mountains here represented as surrounding Sumeru are supposed to form seven concentric circles with seas separating them. These seven rows of mountains are golden, and we read in other accounts of the Buddhist cosmogony of seven circles of iron mountains surrounding the habitable world.