Meaning of Meru | Babel Free

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1. A mountain in Arusha, Tanzania.
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2. A mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.
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3. Acronym of milli-Earth rate unit (“a unit of angular velocity equal to one thousandth of Earth's rotation rate”).
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4. The abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.
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5. The Ameru people of Kenya.
6. A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.
7. The Ameru language.
8. A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live.

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“2003, J. Dina Bagdel, John C. Huntington Buddhist Cosmology: Environment of Meditative Transformation: Mount Meru, John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel, Robert A. F. Thurman, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, page 66, Buddhist realizations and transformations take place in a sacred meditational space known as Mount Meru, or Sumeru. In Western-language literature, the Mount Meru system is often construed as the "Buddhist universe," but this description is misleading as it implies a singular phenomenon. The Mount Meru system is indeed an expression of Buddhist cosmology, but it describes structure of the cosmos.”

“2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.”

“It was in 1902, six years after the killings, however, that a church and school were built near Akeri, specifically at Nkoaranga on the slopes of Mount Meru (Baroin 1995, 3).”

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