Ancient Buddhists believed Mount Meru to be the centre of
physical and spiritual universe. They also thought that the earth
was flat.
Excerpt from another article on Buddhism:
"Donald Lopez, a professor of Buddhist and Tibetan
studies at the University of Michigan, provides an illuminating
account of this culture clash in his book Buddhism and Science:
A Guide for the Perplexed (University of Chicago Press, 2008).
Conservative Buddhists rejected the round world theory. They
believed the historical Buddha had perfect knowledge, and if the
historical Buddha believed in the Mount Meru cosmos, then it must
be true."
"Professor Lopez writes that the Mount Meru controversy didn't reach isolated Tibet
until the 20th century. A Tibetan scholar named Gendun Chopel spent
the years 1936 to 1943 traveling in south Asia, soaking up the
modern view of the cosmos that by then was accepted even in
conservative monasteries. In
1938 Gendun Chopel sent an article to the Tibet
Mirror informing his country persons that the world is
round.
The current Dalai Lama, who has flown about the round world
several times, seems to have put an end to flat earthism among
Tibetans by saying the historical Buddha was wrong about the shape
of the earth." - (source:
About.com:Buddhism)
Since you are so skeptical, don't believe anything. Buddha
preached that too.
My friend had asked her master, her master said he had never
heard of it. Her master also asked which scripture. Just name the
scripture and the truth will be out. What you said above is
believed by Tibetans Buddhists or it is being taught by Buddha
himself. If is by Buddha himself, which scripture ? So far, have
only heard Science is proving Buddha correct and never heard
Science is proving Buddha wrong.