Hemasagara

hemasagara (T. gangs chen mtsho). Literally, "immense ocean," "infinite ocean," etc. The term is translated as "Great Glacial Lake" in Myriad Worlds.

The name hemasagara is applied to the buddhas of the five families as they appear in Buddhist cosmology. Our universe, the Saha world, is said to appear within the thirteenth of twenty-five lotus flowers inside the alms bowl of Vairochana-Hemasagara.^[1]