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སྲོག་ཤིང་། | Glossary of Terms
སྲོག་ཤིང་།
srog shing
yaṣṭi
- Term
Publications: 5
Translation by Ven. Konchog Tenzin (Mark Riege) · Virginia Blum · Ven. Yeshe Metog (Claudia Jürgens)
- Life pillar
- སྲོག་ཤིང་།
- srog shing
- yaṣṭi
Central inner pillar or tree trunk that is said to give life to a stūpa or sacred statue.
Translation by Dr. Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Khenpo Tsultrim Lodrö
- Life pillar
- སྲོག་ཤིང་།
- srog shing
- yaṣṭi
The main pillar in the center of a stūpa.
Translation by Patrick Lambelet · Caley Smith
- Life pillar
- སྲོག་ཤིང་།
- srog shing
- yaṣṭi
The Sanskrit yaṣṭi may refer to a flagpole, especially one said to have adorned the capital cities of five former buddha, but more specifically, it refers to the “life pillar” in the center of a statue or stūpa
Translation by Rolf Scheuermann · Casey Kemp
- Central pillar
- སྲོག་ཤིང་།
- srog shing
- yaṣṭi
Translation by Lowell Cook
- Central pole
- སྲོག་ཤིང་།
- srog shing
- yaṣṭi
The central axis of a stupa.