A Reflection on Buddhist Cosmology

Although Buddha forewarned his followers against discussing such issues as the beginning and end of the universe, the religious texts of main Buddhist schools, later, provide a picture of Buddhist cosmology, which is divided into two main types: spatial or spacial which describes the arrangement of different worlds and temporal cosmology which explains how creatures are created and destroyed. Spatial cosmology is divided into vertical or cakravada (or cakravada) cosmology and horizontal or sahasravada cosmology. It should be noted that there is no single cosmological system in Buddhism, which shows its disharmony.