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དཔེ་བྱེད། | Glossary of Terms
དཔེ་བྱེད།
dpe byed
anuvyañjana
- Term
The eighty secondary physical characteristics of a buddha and of other great beings (mahāpuruṣa), which include such details as the redness of the fingernails and the blackness of the hair. They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two major marks or signs of a great being.
- Minor sign
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ།
- དཔེ་བྱད།
- dpe byad bzang po
- dpe byad
- anuvyañjana
- vyañjana
For their enumeration in this text, see UT22084-029-001-5663.
- Minor sign
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ།
- དཔེ་བྱད།
- dpe byad bzang po
- dpe byad
- anuvyañjana
- vyañjana
- Features (of a great being)
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ།
- dpe byad bzang po
- anuvyañjana
These characteristics of a supreme being are eighty in number and include such details as the redness of the fingernails and the blackness of the hair.
- Features of a great muni
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ།
- dpe byad bzang po
- anuvyañjana
These characteristics of a supreme being are eighty in number and include such details as the redness of the fingernails and the blackness of the hair.
- Minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ།
- dpe byad bzang po
- anuvyañjana
See “eighty excellent minor marks.”
- Secondary signs
- དཔེ་བྱེད།
- dpe byed
- anuvyañjana
The eighty secondary physical characteristics of a “great being,” a mahāpuruṣa, which every buddha possesses. They include such details as the redness of the fingernails and the blackness of the hair.