Atsumori (play)
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Atsumori is a Japanese Noh play by Zeami Motokiyo which focuses on Taira no Atsumori, a young samurai who was killed in the Genpei War, and his killer, Kumagai Naozane. Atsumori's death is portrayed t
Scene from the Noh play print by Kogyo Tsukioka
Atsumori playing the flute drawn by Kikuchi Yosai.
Buddhist cosmology
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Buddhist cosmology is the description of the shape and evolution of the Universe according to Buddhist scriptures and commentaries.
Atsumori (play)
…with the moon in the southern tower are now shrouded in the cloud of Saṅkhāra [behind the moon]. 50 year of a human life: compared with the life in Geten, they are [so short as to be] but a dream and illusion. Is there anything at all that, once given life, won't perish? Unless you consider this a seed…
Buddhist mandala with Mount Meru shown in the center depicting the terrestrial universe divided into four quadrants each containing oceans and continents with the known world of humans, Jambudvīpa, located in the south alongside three other continents named Pūrvavideha, Aparagodānīya and Uttarakuru.
Wat Arun in Bangkok has five pagodas, which were built to simulate Buddhist cosmology.
Aerial view of Borobudur
Buddhist cosmological image of alternate world systems.