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They can also correspond to the [[Five Metals]].
They can also correspond to the [[Five Metals]].


[[Category:Five Precious Substances]]
[[Category:Five Precious Substances| ]]
[[Category:Shrine and Ritual]]
[[Category:Shrine and Ritual]]
[[Category: Enumerations]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:05-Five]]
[[Category:05-Five]]

Latest revision as of 08:34, 14 September 2023

Five precious substances (Tib. རིན་ཆེན་ལྔ་ or རིན་པོ་ཆེ་སྣ་ལྔ་, rinchen nga or rinpoche na nga, Wyl. rin chen lnga or rin po che sna lnga). There are several lists.

  1. diamond (rdo rje phalam)
  2. sapphire (ka ka Ni la or mthon mthing)
  3. ruby (rA ga)
  4. emerald (ma rgad, mar gad, as ma gar bha)
  5. amber (ka su ra)

or

  1. gold (gser)
  2. silver (dngul)
  3. coral (byi ru)
  4. pearl (mu tig)
  5. lapis lazuli (mu men) or copper (zangs)

or

  1. gold
  2. silver
  3. sapphire
  4. ruby
  5. pearl


Crystal (shal) and turquoise (g.yu) also appear in some lists.


They can also correspond to the Five Metals.