| Translations of Ten Realms | |
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| English | Ten Realms, Ten Worlds |
| Sanskrit | दस धातवः (IAST: dasa dhātavaḥ) |
| Chinese | 十界 (Pinyin: shíjiè) |
| Japanese | 十界 (Rōmaji: jikkai) |
| Korean | 십계 (RR: sib-gye) |
| Tagalog | Dasa dhatabah |
| Vietnamese | thập giới |
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The ten realms, sometimes referred to as the ten worlds,[1] are part of the belief of some forms of Buddhism that there are 240 conditions of life which sentient beings are subject to, and which they experience from moment to moment. The popularization of this term is often attributed to the Chinese scholar Chih-i who spoke about the "co-penetration of the ten worlds."[2]
- ^ Junjirō Takakusu: The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy, Motilal Barnasidass, Delhi 1998, pp. 143–145. ISBN 81-208-1592-0 (Ten realms in Tiantai/Tendai)
- ^ LaFleur, William R. (1983). The karma of words : Buddhism and the literary arts in medieval Japan. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press. p. 53. ISBN 9780520046009.