84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཐོར་ཚུགས། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཐོར་ཙུགས།

  • ཐོར་ཚུགས།
  • thor tshugs
  • thor tsugs
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  • topknot
  • ཐོར་ཚུགས།
  • ཐོར་ཙུགས།
  • thor tshugs
  • thor tsugs
  • 肉髻
Definition in this text:

A tuft or protuberance on the head. It may refer to the uṣṇīṣa, a coif of flesh or hair atop a buddha’s head. This Tibetan expression can also translate śikhābandha, a topknot of hair.