གདུང་བ་ལྔ། | Glossary of Terms
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གདུང་བ་ལྔ།
- དཀའ་ཐུབ་ལྔ་ལྡན།
- gdung ba lnga
- dka’ thub lnga ldan
- pañcatapas
- Term
- austerity of the five fires
- གདུང་བ་ལྔ།
- gdung ba lnga
- pañcatapas
An ascetic practice in which the practitioner lights four fires, one for each of the four directions, and then sits down in the middle of them as the sun, the fifth fire, blazes directly overhead. This practice is also said to be done especially during the hot season.
- five fires
- གདུང་བ་ལྔ།
- gdung ba lnga
- pañcatapas
Literally meaning “five heats” or “fivefold ascetic practice,” within Brahamanical sources this term refers to the ascetic practice of sitting at the center of four fires during the hot season in India, with the sun above equaling five.
- fivefold austerity
- དཀའ་ཐུབ་ལྔ་ལྡན།
- dka’ thub lnga ldan
- pañcatapas
The ascetic practice of sitting between “five fires,” i.e., a fire in each cardinal direction with the sun overhead.