Ten directions
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ten directions (Skt. daśadik [alt. daśa-diś]; T. phyogs bcu; C. shifang; J. jippō; K. sibang 十方). The four cardinal directions along with the four intermediate directions, the zenith (top), and the nadir (bottom).[1][2]
Thus, the ten directions are:[3]
1) ཤར་ east.
2) ལྷོ་ south,
3) ནུབ་ west,
4) བྱང་ north,
5) ཤར་ལྷོ་ south-east,
6) ལྷོ་ནུབ་ south-west,
7) ནུབ་བྱང་ north-west,
8) བྱང་ཤར་ north-east,
9) འོག་ below,
10 ) སྟེང་ above.
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- By covering every possible direction, the “ten directions” therefore comes to be used by extension to mean “everywhere,” in the sense of an all-pervasive completeness or comprehensiveness, whether of activities, states, or occurrences.[2]
Notes
- ↑
ten directions, 84000 Glossary of Terms
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Robert E. Buswell Jr., Donald S. Lopez Jr., The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton: 2014), s.v. daśadiś
- ↑
phyogs bcu, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
