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སྤྱི་གཙུག་བལྟར་མི་མཐོང་བ། | Glossary of Terms
སྤྱི་གཙུག་བལྟར་མི་མཐོང་བ།
spyi gtsug bltar mi mthong ba
anavalokitamūrdhatā
- Term
- Crown cannot be seen
- སྤྱི་གཙུག་བལྟར་མི་མཐོང་བ།
- spyi gtsug bltar mi mthong ba
- anavalokitamūrdhatā
A feature of the uṣṇīṣa whereby its top, or its upward extent, cannot be seen.
- Invisible crown
- སྤྱི་གཙུག་བལྟར་མི་མཐོང་བ།
- spyi gtsug bltar mi mthong ba
- anavalokitamūrdhata
One of the features of a tathāgata, sometimes included as an additional characteristic of the uṣṇīṣa (q.v.) and sometimes as a separate sign, either within the major and minor marks or in addition to them. Although sometimes explained with the sense almost of a prohibition against looking down on a tathāgata from above, it is more usually linked to the idea that the uṣṇīṣa extends upwards so far that its top is literally out of sight. Its mention in this text relates to the overall stature of a tathāgata, presumably in more than one sense.
- Pinnacle of their crown cannot be seen
- སྤྱི་གཙུག་བལྟར་མི་མངོན་པ།
- སྤྱི་གཙུག་བལྟར་མི་མཐོང་བ།
- spyi gtsug bltar mi mngon pa
- spyi gtsug bltar mi mthong ba
- gūḍhaśikhatā
- anavalokitamūrdhatā
Seventy-first of the eighty minor marks in this text, although it does not figure in other lists of the minor marks. It is considered as a feature of the crown extension (uṣṇīṣa) in some texts and an additional, separate mark of a tathāgata in others. See also Unseen Pinnacle.