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The '''ten glorious ornaments''' (Tib. | The '''ten glorious ornaments''' (Tib. དཔལ་གྱི་ཆས་བཅུ་, [[Wyl.]] ''dpal gyi chas bcu'') are: | ||
*the [[eight charnel ground ornaments]], | *the [[eight charnel ground ornaments]], | ||
*the blazing fire of wisdom (Tib. | *the blazing fire of wisdom (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མེ་དཔུང་, Wyl. ''ye shes kyi me dpung''), and | ||
*vajra wings (Tib. | *vajra wings (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེའི་གཤོག་པ་, Wyl. ''rdo rje’i gshog pa'').<ref>[[Thinley Norbu]], ''The Small Golden Key'', and Robert Beer, ''The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols''</ref> | ||
The blazing fire of wisdom consumes demons and [[disturbing emotions]], and the vajra wings of a [[garuda]] symbolize the union of method and [[wisdom]].<ref>Robert Beer, ''The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols''.</ref> | The blazing fire of wisdom consumes demons and [[disturbing emotions]], and the vajra wings of a [[garuda]] symbolize the union of method and [[wisdom]].<ref>Robert Beer, ''The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols''.</ref> | ||
Latest revision as of 20:36, 12 June 2018
The ten glorious ornaments (Tib. དཔལ་གྱི་ཆས་བཅུ་, Wyl. dpal gyi chas bcu) are:
- the eight charnel ground ornaments,
- the blazing fire of wisdom (Tib. ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མེ་དཔུང་, Wyl. ye shes kyi me dpung), and
- vajra wings (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེའི་གཤོག་པ་, Wyl. rdo rje’i gshog pa).[1]
The blazing fire of wisdom consumes demons and disturbing emotions, and the vajra wings of a garuda symbolize the union of method and wisdom.[2]
According to another system, there is also an alternative listing of eight glorious ornaments.
References
- ↑ Thinley Norbu, The Small Golden Key, and Robert Beer, The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols
- ↑ Robert Beer, The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols.