རབ་རིབ། | Glossary of Terms
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རབ་རིབ་པ།
- རབ་རིབ།
- rab rib
- rab rib pa
- vitimitakara
- timira
- Term
- timira
- རབ་རིབ་པ།
- rab rib pa
- timira
The timira disease includes a variety of eye disorders including myopia, cataract, etc. In the context of Buddhist texts, this term is used to refer to eye floaters (i.e., spots, specks, or strings appearing in one’s visual field). This eye disorder is called myodesopsia or muscae volitantes (Latin for “flying flies”).