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    Mount Meru (Sanskrit/Pali: मेरु), also known as Sumeru, Sineru, or Mahāmeru, is the sacred five-peaked mountain of Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist cosmology...
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    Mount Meru is a dormant stratovolcano located 70 kilometres (43 mi) west of Kilimanjaro in southeast Arusha Region, Tanzania. At a height of 4,562.13 metres...
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    Mount Meru (also Sumeru (Sanskrit) or Sineru (Pāli) or Kangrinboqe or Kailash) is the name of the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology. Etymologically...
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  • Buddhist cosmology. Mount Meru or Sumeru may also refer to: Mount Meru (Buddhism), the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology Mount Meru (Tanzania), an...
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    eastern slopes of Mount Kenya in the former Eastern Province. The word Meru means 'shining light' in the Meru language. In Kiswahili, the Meru are called Ng'aa...
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  • Look up Meru or mēru in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Meru may refer to: Meru, Kenya, town in Meru County in the republic of Kenya Meru County, one...
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  • Mount Meru University (MMU) is a private university in Arusha, Tanzania. It was founded in 1962 as International Baptist Theological Seminary of Eastern...
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    Mandala (section Mount Meru)
    depicted with Mount Meru as the axis mundi in the center, surrounded by the continents. One example is the Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru, a silk tapestry...
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  • Sri Yantra (redirect from Maha Meru)
    the nava chakra. Its projection into three dimensions results in the Mount Meru, symbolizing the philosophy of Kashmir Shaivism. In the 2009 issue of...
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    Meru Peak is a mountain located in the Garhwal Himalayas, in the state of Uttarakhand in India. The 6,660-metre (21,850 ft) peak lies between Thalay Sagar...
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    Arusha Region, with a population of 2,356,255 (2022 census). Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, Arusha...
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    Wameru (redirect from Meru (Rwa))
    The Meru (Wameru in Swahili), also known as the Va-Rwa (Rwa being the root word), are a Bantu ethnic group native to the slopes of Mount Meru in Arusha...
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    Mount Meru is the center of the earth, surrounded by the Cosmos. Hindus consider Mount Krailas (Thai: ไกรลาส) in the Himalayas in Tibet to be Mount Meru...
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  • Meru is a town in eastern Kenya. It is the headquarters of the Meru County, and the seventh largest urban centre in the country. Meru urban center has...
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    precious unctions. As per Buddhist texts, Mount Kailash (Kailasa) is known as the mythological Mount Meru. Kailash is central to its cosmology, and a...
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    At the center of Ila-vrta lies the golden Mount Meru, the king of mountains. On the summit of Mount Meru, is the vast city of Brahma, known as Brahmapuri...
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  • Meru is a Bantu language spoken by the Meru people (Ameru) who live on the Eastern and Northern slopes of Mount Kenya and on the Nyambene ranges. They...
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    temple-mountain and the later galleried temple. It is designed to represent Mount Meru, home of the devas in Hindu mythology and is surrounded by a moat more...
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    chamber, and multi-tiered thatched roofs. The height of Meru towers represents the Hindu Mount Meru. Meru towers are usually dedicated to either the highest...
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    Mount Kilimanjaro (/ˌkɪlɪmənˈdʒɑːroʊ/) is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. With three volcanic cones — Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira — it is the highest mountain...
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  • from one another by eight seas, with the ninth and tallest mountain, Mount Meru, at the center. The film premiered in competition at the 75th Cannes Film...
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  • Rwa or Meru sometimes Rwo (Wameru in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based on the south and eastern slopes of Mount Meru in Meru District...
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    Arusha National Park (category Mount Meru (Tanzania))
    Arusha National Park covers Mount Meru, a prominent volcano with an elevation of 4566 m, in the Arusha Region of north eastern Tanzania. The park is small...
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    Mount Olympus in Greek mythology) or are related to famous events (like Mount Sinai in Judaism and descendant religions or Mount Kailash, Mount Meru in...
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  • the mount of the Divine presence. This position is agreed upon by various Biblical commentators, from Rashi to Matthew Henry. Mount Meru Mount Olympus...
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    traditions respectively, Mount Qaf in other Islamic and Arabic cosmologies, the mountain Harā Bərəz in Zoroastrian cosmology, Mount Meru in Hindu, Jain, and...
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    believe Kailasha to be the Mount Meru which is considered to be a stairway to Svarga, a heaven where the devas reside. Meru is considered as the center...
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  • sa:महामेरु in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mahameru may refer to: Mount Meru, sacred mountain of Hindu, Buddhist and Jain cosmology A 3D representation...
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    is Kawira Mwangaza of the Kenya Kwanza coalition. Mount Kenya (now politically divided between Meru and other counties) has been influenced by the climate...
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    capital city of Svarga, Amaravati, though he is also associated with Mount Meru (also called Sumeru). The etymological roots of Indra are unclear, and...
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