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{{ETG article
|term=Continents
|person=No
|description=In the Buddhist cosmogony, according to Gautama Buddha’s exoteric doctrine, there are numberless systems of worlds (or ''Sakwala'') all of which are born, mature, decay, and are destroyed periodically. Orientalists translate the teaching about “the four great continents which do not communicate with each other”, as meaning that “upon the earth there are four great continents” (see Hardy’s ''Eastern Monachism'', p. 4), while the doctrine means simply that around or ''above ''the earth there are on either side four worlds, i.e., the earth appearing as the fourth on each side of the arc {{etg-source|TG}}.
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|term=Continents
|person=No
|description=In the Buddhist cosmogony, according to Gautama Buddha’s exoteric doctrine, there are numberless systems of worlds (or ''Sakwala'') all of which are born, mature, decay, and are destroyed periodically. Orientalists translate the teaching about “the four great continents which do not communicate with each other”, as meaning that “upon the earth there are four great continents” (see Hardy’s ''Eastern Monachism'', p. 4), while the doctrine means simply that around or ''above ''the earth there are on either side four worlds, i.e., the earth appearing as the fourth on each side of the arc {{etg-source|TG}}.
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