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སྐྱུ་རུ་ར། | Glossary of Terms
སྐྱུ་རུ་ར།
skyu ru ra
āmalaka
- Term
- Āmalakī
- སྐྱུ་རུ་ར།
- skyu ru ra
- āmalakī
- Amalaki
- སྐྱུ་རུ་ར།
- skyu ru ra
- āmalakī
The Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica).
- Āmalakī
- སྐྱུ་རུ་ར།
- skyu ru ra
- āmalakī
Emblic myrobalan, Phyllanthus emblica.
- Gooseberry
- སྐྱུ་རུ་ར།
- skyu ru ra
- āmalaka
- Gooseberry
- སྐྱུ་རུ་ར།
- skyu ru ra
- āmalaka
- āmalakī
The Indian gooseberry, or emblic myrobalan. The simile of an āmalakī in the palm of one’s hand is used to illustrate yogic perception (yogipratyakṣa) where the clarity aspect (compared to a crystal) is emphasized. See, e.g., Dharmottara’s Nyāyabindhuṭīkā 1.11. It is also used to illustrate omniscience, or seeing all aspects of things, probably on the analogy of being able to see through the semi-transparent skin of the berry into its interior structure.
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- Emblic myrobalan
- སྐྱུ་རུ་ར།
- skyu ru ra
- āmalakī
Phyllanthus emblica.