84000 Glossary of Terms
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སྨིན་མཚམས་ཀྱི་མཛོད་སྤུ། | Glossary of Terms
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མཛོད་སྤུ་སྨིན་མཚམས་སུ་འཁྲུངས།
- སྨིན་མཚམས་ཀྱི་མཛོད་སྤུ།
- smin mtshams kyi mdzod spu
- mdzod spu smin mtshams su ’khrungs
- ūrṇā
- ūrṇāṅkhitamukhatā
- Term
Publications: 3
Translation by Gyurme Dorje
- hair ringlet that grows between his eyebrows
- མཛོད་སྤུ་སྨིན་མཚམས་སུ་འཁྲུངས།
- mdzod spu smin mtshams su ’khrungs
- ūrṇāṅkhitamukhatā
Thirty-first or thirty-second of the thirty-two major marks.
Translation by Lowell Cook
- ūrṇā hair
- སྨིན་མཚམས་ཀྱི་མཛོད་སྤུ།
- smin mtshams kyi mdzod spu
- ūrṇā
- 白毫
One of the marks of a buddha. A tuft of hair between the eyebrows capable of projecting a very bright light.
Translation by Celso Wilkinson · Laura Goetz · L.S. Summer
- ūrṇā hair between the eyebrows
- སྨིན་མཚམས་ཀྱི་མཛོད་སྤུ།
- smin mtshams kyi mdzod spu
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Listed in The Question of Mañjuśrī as the fifth of the thirty-two signs of a great being. The ūrṇā or the “hair-treasure” (mdzod spu) is the circlet of hair between the Buddha’s eyebrows. In the Mahāvyutpatti this sign is expressed without mention of the eyebrows, (ūrṇākeśa; mdzod spu).