Talk:Mount Meru (Buddhism)

Parallels
"The concept of Sumeru is closely related to the Hindu mythological concept of a central world mountain, called Meru, but differs from the Hindu concept in several particulars.

According to Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośabhāṣyam, Sumeru is 80,000 yojanas tall..." (from text)
 * It would be good to know how it's different. This implies that the height of the mountain is one way in which it differs, but I don't think that's what the author had in mind, since he doesn't explain the difference in the Hindu counterpart. Perhaps Meru is only 79,999 yojanas tall? I guess we'll never know! Fearwig 05:00, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Sumeru and Meru exist in different cosmological matrices. Other than being a central mountain, virtually all of the particulars given about Sumeru in Buddhist sources are different from those found in Hindu sources.RandomCritic 16:48, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Meru and Sumeru are parallel. They are two different points of view that don't necessarily exclude eachother, becuz that would be dualistic.


 * Perhaps. But some Buddhist traditions know of Meru while others of Sumeru. Perhaps they overlap more than you think (like, completely?).--RegentsPark (talk) 18:34, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

Sumeru- I think the sumeru mountains is of immense importance to Sanatan Dharma, widely called Hinduism. It was propagated even in Bhagwad Gita, propounded much before the Buddhist literature. Hence, it can be added under HIndu Religion articles as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.45.83.8 (talk) 02:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I think the difference between Meru and Sumeru is like the difference between Jesus and Jesus Christ or Siddharta and Siddharta Gautama. Therefore the articles should be merged. --84.114.151.136 (talk) 18:53, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

As the article points out, they are the same word except for the honorific prefix. Also perhaps one's stance on merging the articles derives from seeing Buddhism as rooted in Hinduism, or not seeing this. IMHO that relationship is similar to Christianity's derivation from Judaism, so I vote for merging the articles. LADave (talk) 17:21, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Merge?
At present, there is no consensus for merging the articles on Sumeru and Meru, and no discussion has been done. There should be no further attempt to merge the articles until the matter has been formally proposed and discussed, which may be done here. RandomCritic (talk) 21:23, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Merger proposal June 2013
Moved to Talk:Mount Meru