Suvarnadvipa
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Suvarnadvipa (Skt. Suvarṇadvīpa; T. gser gling གསེར་གླིང་) is translated as "Golden Land," "Golden Isle," etc. Suvarnadvipa is mentioned in various ancient and classical Buddhist texts.[1]
In the Tibetan tradition, Suvarnadvipa is said to have been the home of Atisha's teacher Suvarṇadvīpa Dharmakīrti, whom Atisha said was his most important teacher on bodhicitta.
The Princeton Dictionary states that Suvarṇadvīpa is "generally regarded as referring to the region of lower Burma, the Malay Peninsula, and Sumatra."[2]
Notes
- ↑ Such as the Jataka Tales, the Mahāvaṃsa, the Milinda Panha and the Mahāniddesa.
- ↑ Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. Dharmakīrtiśrī
Further reading
- Revire Nicolas, “Facts and Fiction: The Myth of Suvaṇṇabhūmi through the Thai and Burmese Looking Glass,” Mahachulalongkorn Journal of Buddhist Studies 4 (2011): 79–114.
- Decleer, Hubert. "Atisha's Journey to Sumatra." In Donald S. Lopez Jr., ed., Buddhism in Practice. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995, 532-540.