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བཀྲ་ཤིས། | Glossary of Terms
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གཡུང་དྲུང་།
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྡན།
- བཀྲ་ཤིས།
- bkra shis
- bkra shis ldan
- g.yung drung
- svastika
- swastika
- sanātana
- Term
- svastika
- བཀྲ་ཤིས།
- bkra shis
- svastika
Lit. “may it be well.” One of the symbols adorning the palms of the hands and soles of the feet of the buddhas. Together with the śrīvatsa and the nandyāvarta, it is included in the eightieth minor sign. It represents the unchanging.
- svastika
- གཡུང་དྲུང་།
- g.yung drung
- svastika
An ancient Indian symbol of auspiciousness and eternity.
- svastika
- བཀྲ་ཤིས།
- bkra shis
- svastika
- swastika
In later Tibetan translations, it is translated as g.yung-drung. In the early translations, it is bra shis and in the Mahāvyutpatti dictionary it is bkra shis ldan, while g.yung-drung translates nandyāvarta. It is an auspicious sign in Indian culture, and it is one of the auspicious marks on the chest of the Buddha, as well as the śrīvatsa.
- svastika
- བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལྡན།
- bkra shis ldan
- svastika
An ancient Indian symbol of auspiciousness and eternity.
- svastika
- བཀྲ་ཤིས།
- bkra shis
- svastika
A special symbol, considered auspicious in many South Asian traditions, whose name is derived from the word svasti, which is often used as a greeting.
- svastika
- བཀྲ་ཤིས།
- bkra shis
- svastika
A symbol of auspiciousness and good fortune that adorns the palms of the hands and soles of the feet of the buddhas. Together with the śrīvatsa and the nandyāvarta, it is included in the eightieth minor sign.
- everlasting
- གཡུང་དྲུང་།
- g.yung drung
- svastika
- sanātana
In this text, it is a description of the ultimate and quasi-synonymous with nirvāṇa.