84000 Glossary of Terms
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རྔ་ཡབ། | Glossary of Terms
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རྔ་ཡབ།
- rnga yab
- cāmara
- Term
Publications: 3
Translation by Gareth Sparham
- fly whisk
- རྔ་ཡབ།
- rnga yab
- cāmara
A cāmara is a whisk made from the tail of a yak to whisk away insects. It is an emblem of royalty.
Translation by Celso Wilkinson · Laura Goetz · L.S. Summer
- tail whisk
- རྔ་ཡབ།
- rnga yab
- cāmara
Sixty-fifth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.
Translation by Ruth Gamble · Tenzin Ringpapontsang
- yak-tail fan
- རྔ་ཡབ།
- rnga yab
- cāmara
The bushy tail of the yak used as a whisk for repelling flying insects. It is one of the insignia of royalty.