Meru

1. usuallyhuman sciencesThe abode of the gods at the center of the universe in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist traditions.

   2013, Eric Huntington, Portrait of a Landscape: Depictions of the Meru Cosmos in Buddhist Art & Culture, Dissertation, University of Chicago.

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   2003, J. Dina Bagdel, John C. Huntington Buddhist Cosmology: Environment of Meditative Transformation: Mount Meru, John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel, Robert A. F. Thurman, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, page 66, Buddhist realizations and transformations take place in a sacred meditational space known as Mount Meru, or Sumeru. In Western-language literature, the Mount Meru system is often construed as the "Buddhist universe," but this description is misleading as it implies a singular phenomenon. The Mount Meru system is indeed an expression of Buddhist cosmology, but it describes structure of the cosmos.

   Synonyms: Mount Meru, Sumeru

1. The Ameru people of Kenya.
2. The Ameru language.
3. A region and county of Kenya where the Ameru people live.

1. usuallyA mountain in Arusha, Tanzania.

   It was in 1902, six years after the killings, however, that a church and school were built near Akeri, specifically at Nkoaranga on the slopes of Mount Meru (Baroin 1995, 3).

   2009, Dale C. Williams, Leadership and Leadership Development in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania: An Investigation into Patterns and Processes in the Meru Diocese, page 9

2. A people of northern Tanzania, of the Arumeru district of Arusha region.

1. usuallyA mountain in the Indian section of the Himalayas.

   Synonyms: Meru Peak

plural MERUs

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of milli-Earth rate unit (“a unit of angular velocity equal to one thousandth of Earth's rotation rate”).