Thirteen ornaments of the perfect sambhogakaya

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Vajrasattva adorned with the thirteen ornaments of the perfect sambhogakaya

The thirteen ornaments of the perfect sambhogakaya (Tib. ལོངས་སྐུའི་རྒྱན་ཆས་བཅུ་གསུམ་, long kü gyen ché chu sum, Wyl. longs sku'i rgyan chas bcu gsum) are:

  • the five silk adornments (Tib. དར་གྱི་ཆོས་གོས་ལྔ་, dar gyi chögö nga, Wyl. dar gyi chos gos lnga)
  1. headband (Wyl. cod pan)
  2. upper garment (Wyl. stod g.yogs)
  3. long scarf (Wyl. dar dbyangs)
  4. belt (Wyl. sku rags)
  5. lower garment (Wyl. smad dkris)[1]

and

  • the eight jewel ornaments (Tib. རིན་པོ་ཆེའི་རྒྱན་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. rin po che'i rgyan brgyad)
  1. jewel of the crown (dbu rgyan)
  2. earrings (snyan rgyan)
  3. short necklace or neck-band (mgul rgyan)
  4. armlets or shoulder-straps (dpung rgyan)
  5. two long necklaces (one longer than the other) (do shal and se mo do )
  6. bracelets (phyag gdub)
  7. anklets (zhabs gdub)
  8. rings (sor gdub)[2]

Or

  1. crown (dbu rgyan)
  2. earrings (snyan rgyan)
  3. neck-band (mgul rgyan)
  4. shoulder-straps (dpung rgyan)
  5. mid-length necklace (do shal)
  6. long necklace (se mo do)
  7. bracelets (gdu bu)
  8. girdle (ska rags) or its tassels ( 'og pag)

Notes

  1. Padmakara, The Words of My Perfect Teacher, page 267.
  2. Padmakara, Words of my Perfect Teacher, page 267.