Editing Ten realms (section)

{{Short description|Buddhist cosmology}}
[[file:Tainai jikkai no zu by Kuniteru III.jpg|thumb|Japanese depiction of the ten realms]]

{{Buddhist term
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|title=Ten Realms
|sa=दस धातवः
|sa-Latn=dasa dhātavaḥ
|en=Ten Realms, Ten Worlds
|zh=十界
|zh-Latn=shíjiè
|ja=十界
|ja-Latn=jikkai
|ko=십계
|ko-Latn=sib-gye
|vi=thập giới
|tl=Dasa dhatabah
}}

The '''ten realms''', sometimes referred to as the '''ten worlds''',<ref>Junjirō Takakusu: The Essentials of Buddhist Philosophy, Motilal Barnasidass, Delhi 1998, pp. 143–145.  {{ISBN|81-208-1592-0}} (Ten realms in Tiantai/Tendai)</ref> are part of the  belief of some forms of [[Buddhism]] that there are 240 conditions of life which sentient beings are subject to, and which they experience from moment to moment. The popularization of this term is often attributed to the Chinese scholar [[Zhiyi|Chih-i]] who spoke about the "co-penetration of the ten worlds."<ref name="LaFleur 1983">{{cite book|last1=LaFleur|first1=William R.|title=The karma of words : Buddhism and the literary arts in medieval Japan|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xHkrP1EkOa8C|date=1983|publisher=Univ. of Calif. Press|location=Berkeley|isbn=9780520046009|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_xHkrP1EkOa8C/page/n69 53]}}</ref>