- ཤ་གར།
- ཤ་བཀྲ།
- sha bkra
- sha gar
- śvitra
- kilāsa
- sidhya
- hariṇa
- citra
- Term
A medical condition in which the skin loses pigment, resulting in patches of discoloration.
- vitiligo
- ཤ་བཀྲ།
- ཤ་གར།
- sha bkra
- sha gar
- kilāsa
- śvitra
- sidhya
- hariṇa
A skin disorder characterized by a loss of pigmentation.
- vitiligo
- ཤ་བཀྲ།
- sha bkra
- śvitra
- vitiligo
- ཤ་བཀྲ།
- sha bkra
- śvitra
- leprosy
- ཤ་བཀྲ།
- sha bkra
An illness considered an impediment to ordination. Can translate both sitapuṣpika and kilāsa.
See also UT22084-001-001-1011.
- white leprosy
- ཤ་བཀྲ།
- sha bkra
- citra
- śvitra
- white-blotched skin
- ཤ་བཀྲ།
- sha bkra
- kilāsa
The Sanskrit and Tibetan terms are sometimes used to denote leucoderma or vitiligo, a benign skin condition, but the context here suggest this is more likely to be a reference to the pale skin lesions seen in certain forms of leprosy.