ཤང་ཤང་ཏེའུ། | Glossary of Terms

Different kinds of partridge: swamp partridge (Skt. tittiri), grey partridge (Skt. kapiñjala), Greek partridge (Skt. jīva).

Also translated “pheasant.”

In particular the Chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar) also known as the Greek partridge. The name comes from its call of rapidly repeated three notes. In later times, in China and Tibet this became a legendary half-human bird, or a two-headed bird.

Chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar, also known as the Greek partridge). In later times in China and Tibet this became a legendary half-human bird, or a two-headed bird.

Some times translated as “pheasant.” The Sanskrit, jīvaṃjīva refers to the chukar partridge (Alectoris chukar). In Tibet and China, this became a mythical bird depicted as a half human and half bird, or as a bird with two heads. Here its image is the seventeenth of the eighty designs on the palms and soles of the Tathāgata.

A type of bird, often identified as the Grey Peacock Pheasant.

A mythical two-headed bird that is said to live in the snowy mountains. It is described in Buddhist texts as having a melodious song and is depicted in Buddhist art as resembling a pheasant.

Also translated as “partridge.”