Transportation of Communities in Buddhist Scriptures : หน้า 187/263

to transport the community from one continent to another or even one world to another. In the time of the Buddha, the scriptures report that people and the Universal Monarch were transported from another continent called Uttarakururūpa (to the North of Mount Sumeru) to the human world of Jambudīpa (to the South of Mount Sumeru) by means of the Jewelled Wheel of that Universal Monarch. However, the Universal Monarch passed away during their visit and the Jewelled Wheel disappeared with him, making the community unable to return. Thus they resigned themselves to living in the human realm, establishing their own territory called “Kururattīa”. Usually those from the Uttarakururūpa are always strictly established in the Precepts, but after the passing of many generations, a war broke out amongst the Kuru people themselves as is recorded in the Mahābhārata called the ′Bharatayuddha’. These are the traces left behind of beings from another continent (effectively from another planet or another universe). Kuru of those times is in the same location as New Delhi of the present day. The Dhamma of the Lord Buddha, like the Jewelled Wheel of the Universal Monarch can serve as both a weapon and a vehicle: 1. The Dhamma as a Weapon: The Dhamma can be considered like a weapon, because it allows us to execute the defilements — or the three forms of craving: craving for the sensual realm, for the form plane and for the formless plane. 2. The Dhamma as a Vehicle: The Dhamma acts like a vehicle in transporting us out of the Cycle of Existence