The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (652 page)

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Dh
tu
(Skt., P
li, ‘region, element’). A word occurring frequently as a component in longer Buddhist terms, e.g. as one of the three worlds or domains,
k
madh
tu
,
r
padh
tu
,
ar
padh
tu
—see
LOKA
. In its own right, it refers to elements of many different kinds, e.g. the physical elements (earth, water, wind, fire), the eighteen elements of sentience and consciousness (eye, ear, nose, tongue, mental awareness, etc.), the six states of appearance (solid, liquid, temperature, moving, spatial, conscious or not), the remains of a body after
cremation
.
Dh
tu-vavatth
na

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