Copper Colored mountain location?

[Rinchen Dorje]

Curious what people think...Zangdokpalri/Copper Colored mountain, real place or Pure Land or? if real, where?

[Losal Samten]

if real, where?

A place where someone can have many eyes and many mouths, yet still be considered normal.

[Thomas Amundsen]

Not really sure, but Zandokpalri is located on Ngayab Ling, or Cāmaradvipa (Tail Fan/Whisk Land/Continent/Island) in Sanskrit. Some island to the south-west of India and Tibet.

[Malcolm]

Not really sure, but Zandokpalri is located on Ngayab Ling, or Cāmaradvipa (Tail Fan/Whisk Land/Continent/Island) in Sanskrit.

For which I nominate Madagascar!

[Rinchen Dorje]

Not really sure, but Zandokpalri is located on Ngayab Ling, or Cāmaradvipa (Tail Fan/Whisk Land/Continent/Island) in Sanskrit.

For which I nominate Madagascar!

Are you being serious? and if so why Madagascar?

[Thomas Amundsen]

Not really sure, but Zandokpalri is located on Ngayab Ling, or Cāmaradvipa (Tail Fan/Whisk Land/Continent/Island) in Sanskrit.

For which I nominate Madagascar!

Are you being serious? and if so why Madagascar?

There aren't many other major islands south-west of India, right?



(Source: Google Maps)

[Rinchen Dorje]

For which I nominate Madagascar!

Are you being serious? and if so why Madagascar?

There aren't many other major islands south-west of India, right?



(Source: Google Maps)

yeah..I guess so..looks like the only one...hmmm

[Malcolm]

Not really sure, but Zandokpalri is located on Ngayab Ling, or Cāmaradvipa (Tail Fan/Whisk Land/Continent/Island) in Sanskrit.

For which I nominate Madagascar!

Are you being serious? and if so why Madagascar?

Mainly 1) because the native language of Madagascar is the only language in the world related to the language of the Borneo headhunters and 2) Buddhaguptanatha, Taranatha's Indian teacher, reported that he received Padmasambhava's transmissions of Hevajra and so on on that Island in the 16th century, back when it was named San Lorenzo in Portuguese. 3) Meru cosmology is an Indo-centric view of the world, and it does in fact refer to real places on our planet, such as Uttarakuru, which is also the same region as the one called "Kuru" by Ptolemy, inhabited by horse riding nomads, etc.

We can understand from the account of the taming of Rudra, the Ramayāna and so on, that Indian shipping lanes were troubled by seagoing pirates related to the headhunters of Borneo, and in the case of Śrī Lanka, there was an out and out war between Indo-Aryans and the headhunting tribes living there.

[Rinchen Dorje]

awesome! thanks for the info.. however as Madagascar is a good sized island with about a dozen mountains any idea which one it might be?

[Malcolm]

awesome! thanks for the info.. however as Madagascar is a good sized island with about a dozen mountains any idea which one it might be?

The copper colored one?

[Rinchen Dorje]

good one... so Im guessing all of the info you have read does not go into anymore detail then?

[Malcolm]

good one... so Im guessing all of the info you have read does not go into anymore detail then?

Nope, but this looks promising, Maromokotro:

[Rinchen Dorje]

yes..thats the one I was thinking of as well..its certainly the highest mountain in Madagascar...

[Malcolm]

yes..thats the one I was thinking of as well..its certainly the highest mountain in Madagascar...

IN general, Tibetans were not very good at understanding the outside world following the 13th century. For example, it was only in the late 19th century that they realized they had completely misidentified the Buddhist region of Magadha. For a few hundred years Tibetans had popularly located it in Assam.

[Rinchen Dorje]

but at the same time southwest from India and Tibet wouldnt change much, right? Southwest is well, southwest..

[Zla'od]

O Guru Rinpoche, where art thou?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ftai12IOM

[pael]

3) Meru cosmology is an Indo-centric view of the world, and it does in fact refer to real places on our planet, such as Uttarakuru, which is also the same region as the one called "Kuru" by Ptolemy, inhabited by horse riding nomads, etc.

Uttarakuru people according to Abhidharma live 1000 years. Can it be on this planet?

[philji]

There was said to be a land mass, south of Sri Lanka and apparently connected to Madagascar called Kumari Kandan. It is written about in ancient Tamil literature.
See link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumari_Kandam

[Aemilius]

You can see from this series of images depicting the continental drift, that Madagascar was part of the Indian continent 100 Mio and 150 Mio years ago.

[ratna]

Intriguing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambava