ཐོར་ཚུགས། | Glossary of Terms

ཐོར་ཙུགས།
ཐོར་ཚུགས།

thor tshugs
thor tsugs

Term

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topknot

The Sūtra on Maitreya’s Birth in the Heaven of Joy

topknot

ཐོར་ཚུགས།
ཐོར་ཙུགས།

thor tshugs
thor tsugs

肉髻

Definition in this text:

A tuft or protuberance on the head. It may refer to the uṣṇīṣa, a coif of flesh or hair atop a buddha’s head. This Tibetan expression can also translate śikhābandha, a topknot of hair.

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AO

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AD

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AA

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RP

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RS

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SU

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