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གཙུག་ཏོར། | Glossary of Terms
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གཙུག་ཏོར།
- དབུ་གཙུག་ཏོར་དང་ལྡན་པ།
- སྤྱི་གཙུག
- ཨུཥྞཱི་ཥ།
- gtsug tor
- spyi gtsug
- dbu gtsug tor dang ldan pa
- uSh+NI Sha
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇi
- uṣṇīṣaśīrṣa
- śikha
- uṣṇīṣaśiraskatā
- Term
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form it is a pointed shape of the head like a turban (the Sanskrit term, uṣṇīṣa, in fact means “turban”), or more elaborately a dome-shaped extension. The extension is described as having various extraordinary attributes such as emitting and absorbing rays of light or reaching an immense height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form it is a pointed shape to the head (like a turban). More elaborately it is a dome-shaped protuberance, or even an invisible protuberance of infinite height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇi
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form it is that the head has a heightened or pointed shape (like a turban). More elaborately it refers to a dome-shaped extension of the top of the head, or even to an invisible extension of immense height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form it is that the head has a heightened or pointed shape (like a turban). More elaborately it refers to a dome-shaped extension of the top of the head, or even to an invisible extension of immense height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form it is a pointed shape to the head (like a turban), or more elaborately a dome-shaped protuberance, or even an invisible protuberance of infinite height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being, in its simplest form it is a pointed shape to the head (like a turban), or more elaborately a dome-shaped protuberance, or even an invisible protuberance of infinite height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- སྤྱི་གཙུག
- spyi gtsug
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two marks of a great being, in its simplest form it is a pointed shape to the head (like a turban), or more elaborately a dome-shaped protuberance, or even an invisible protuberance of infinite height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
Listed in The Question of Mañjuśrī as first of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form it is a pointed shape of the head like a turban (the Sanskrit term, uṣṇīṣa, in fact means “turban”), or more elaborately a dome-shaped extension. The extension is described as having various magical attributes such as emitting and absorbing rays of light or reaching an immense height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the physical marks of a buddha that takes the form of the elevated shape of the crown of his head or an extension rising upwards from it.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
The raised extension on the crown of a tathāgata’s head, usually listed among the thirty-two signs of a great being.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
A protuberance on the top of the Buddha’s head. One of the thirty-two marks of a great person.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form, it is a pointed shape on the head (like a turban). More elaborately, a dome-shaped protuberance, or even an invisible protuberance of infinite height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
A protuberance on the head of a buddha; this term may also refer to beings who have this protuberance, known as uṣṇīṣa kings or uṣṇīṣa-tathāgatas.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇīṣa
- ཨུཥྞཱི་ཥ།
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- uSh+NI Sha
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the thirty-two signs of a great being. In its simplest form it is that the head has a heightened or pointed shape (like a turban). More elaborately it refers to a dome-shaped extension of the top of the head, or even to an invisible extension of immense height.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
The protuberance at the top of a buddha’s head, visible only to realized beings.
- uṣṇīṣa
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- crown extension
- སྤྱི་གཙུག
- དབུ་གཙུག་ཏོར་དང་ལྡན་པ།
- spyi gtsug
- dbu gtsug tor dang ldan pa
- śikha
- uṣṇīṣaśiraskatā
This is listed on UT22084-031-002-2379 as the last (33rd) of the major marks.
- crown extension
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- uṣṇīṣaśīrṣa
- crown of the head
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
- crown protrusion
- གཙུག་ཏོར།
- gtsug tor
- uṣṇīṣa
One of the physical marks of a buddha that takes the form of a protuberance on the crown of his head.
- crown protuberance
- སྤྱི་གཙུག
- spyi gtsug
- uṣṇīṣa