Eighty minor marks of a buddha

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The eighty minor marks of a buddha (Tib. དཔེ་བྱེད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་བཅུ་) are:[1]

  1. His nails are copper-coloured. (Tib. སེན་མོ་ཟངས་ཀྱི་མདོག་ )
  2. His nails are moderately shiny. (Tib. སེན་མོ་མདོག་སྣུམ་པ་ )
  3. His nails are raised. (Tib. སེན་མོ་མཐོ་བ་ )
  4. His fingers are round. (Tib. སོར་མོ་རྣམས་ཟླུམ་པ་ )
  5. His fingers are broad. (Tib. སོར་མོ་རྣམས་རྒྱས་པ་ )
  6. His fingers are tapered. (Tib. སོར་མོ་རྣམས་བྱིན་གྱིས་ཕྲ་བ་ )
  7. His veins do not protrude. (Tib. རྩ་མི་མངོན་པ་ )
  8. His veins are free of knots. (Tib. རྩ་མདུད་པ་མེད་པ་ )
  9. His ankles do not protrude. (Tib. ལོང་བུ་མི་མངོན་པ་ )
  10. His feet are not uneven. (Tib. ཞབསད་མི་མཉམ་པ་མེད་པ་ )
  11. He walks with a lion's gait. (Tib. སེང་གེའི་སྟབས་སུ་གཤེགས་པ་ )
  12. He walks with an elephant's gait. (Tib. གླང་པོ་ཆེའི་སྟབས་སུ་གཤེགས་པ་ )
  13. He walks with the gait of a goose. (Tib. ངང་པའི་སྟབས་སུ་གཤེགས་པ་ )
  14. He walks with a bull's gait. (Tib. ཁྱུ་མཆོག་གི་སྟབས་སུ་གཤེགས་པ་ )
  15. His gait tends to the right. (Tib. གཡས་མཆོག་སུ་ལྡོག་ཅིང་གཤེགས་པ་ )
  16. His gait is elegant. (Tib. མཛེས་པར་གཤེགས་པ་ )
  17. His gait is steady. (Tib. མི་གཡོ་བར་གཤེགས་པ་ )
  18. His body is well-covered. (Tib. སྐུ་འཁྲིལ་བག་ཆགས་པ་ )
  19. His body looks as if it were polished. (Tib. སྐུ་བྱི་དོར་བྱས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ )
  20. His body is well-proportioned. (Tib. སྐུ་རིམ་པར་འཚམས་པ་ )
  21. His body is clean and pure. (Tib. སྐུ་གཙང་ཞིང་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ )
  22. His body is smooth. (Tib. སྐུ་འཇམ་པ་ )
  23. His body is perfect. (Tib. སྐུ་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ )
  24. His sex organs are fully developed. (Tib. མཚན་རྣམ་པར་རྫོགས་པ་ )
  25. His physical bearing is excellent and dignified. (Tib. སྐུ་ཁོ་ལག་ཡངས་ཤིང་བཟང་བ་ )
  26. His steps are even. (Tib. གོམ་པ་སྙོམས་པ་ )
  27. His eyes are perfect. (Tib. སྤྱན་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ )
  28. He is youthful. (Tib. སྐུ་གཞོན་ཤ་ཅན་ )
  29. His body is not sunken. (Tib. སྐུ་ཞུམ་པ་མེད་པ་ )
  30. His body is broad. (Tib. སྐུ་ཞ་རྒྱས་པ་ཉིད་ )
  31. His body is not loose. (Tib. སྐུ་ཤིན་ཏུ་གྲིམས་པ་ )
  32. His limbs are well-proportioned. (Tib. ཡན་ལག་དང་ཉིང་ལག་རྣམ་པར་འབྱེས་པ་ ་)
  33. His vision is clear and unblurred. (Tib. གཟིགས་པ་རབ་མེད་ཅིང་རྣམ་པར་དག་པ་ )
  34. His belly is round. (Tib. སྐུ་ཟླུམ་པ་ )
  35. His belly is perfectly moderate. (Tib. སྐུ་སྐབས་ཕྱིན་པ་ )
  36. His belly is not long. (Tib. སྐུ་མ་རྙོངས་པ་ )
  37. His belly does not bulge. (Tib. ཕྱལ་ཕྱང་ངེ་བ་མ་ཡིན་པ་ )
  38. His navel is deep. (Tib.ལྟེ་བ་ཟབ་པ་ )
  39. His navel winds to the right. (Tib. ལྟེ་བ་གཡས་ཕྱོགས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བ་ )
  40. He is perfectly handsome. (Tib. ཀུན་ནས་མཛེས་པ་ )
  41. His habits are clean. (Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤྱོད་པ་གཙང་བ་ )
  42. His body is free of moles and discolouration. (Tib. སྐུ་ལ་རྨི་བ་གནང་བག་མེད་པ་ )
  43. His hands are as soft as cotton wool. (Tib. ཕྱག་ཤིང་བལ་ལྟར་འཇམ་པ་ )
  44. The lines of his palms are clear. (Tib. ཕྱག་གི་རི་མོ་མདངས་ཡོད་པ་ )
  45. The lines of his palms are deep. (Tib. ཕྱག་རི་མོ་ཟབ་པ་ )
  46. The lines of his palms are long. (Tib. ཕྱག་གི་རི་མོ་རིང་བ་ )
  47. His face is not overlong. (Tib. ཞལ་ཧ་ཅང་མི་རིང་བ་ )
  48. His lips are red like copper. (Tib. མཆུ་བིམ་པ་ལྟར་དམར་པ་ )
  49. His tongue is pliant. (Tib. ལྗགས་མཉེན་པ་ )
  50. His tongue is thin. (Tib. ལྗགས་སྲབ་པ་ )
  51. His tongue is red. (Tib. ལྗགས་དམར་བ་ )
  52. His voice is like thunder. (Tib. གསུང་འབྲུག་གི་སྒྲ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ )
  53. His voice is sweet and gentle. (Tib. གསུང་སྙན་ཅིང་འཇམ་པ་ )
  54. His teeth are round. (Tib. མཆེ་བ་ཟླུམ་པ་ )
  55. His teeth are sharp. (Tib. མཆེ་བ་རྣོ་བ་ )
  56. His teeth are white. (Tib. མཆེ་བ་དཀར་བ་ )
  57. His teeth are even. (Tib. མཆེ་བ་མཉམ་པ་ )
  58. His teeth are tapered. (Tib. མཆེ་བ་བྱིན་གྱིས་ཕྲ་བ་ )
  59. His nose is prominent. (Tib. ཤངས་མཐོ་བ་ )
  60. His nose is clean. (Tib. ཤངས་གཙང་བ་ )
  61. His eyes are clear and wide. (Tib. སྤྱན་ཡངས་པ་ )
  62. His eyelashes are thick. (Tib.རྫི་མ་ལྟུག་པ་ )
  63. The black and white parts of his eyes are well-defined and are like lotus petals. (Tib. སྤྱན་་དཀར་ནག་འབྱེས་ཤིང་པད་མའི་འདབ་མ་རངས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ )
  64. His eyebrows are long. (Tib. སྨིན་ཚུགས་རིང་བ་ )
  65. His eyebrows are smooth. (Tib. སྨིན་མ་འཇམ་པ་ )
  66. His eyebrows are soft. (Tib. སྨིན་མ་སྣུམ་པ་ )
  67. His eyebrows are evenly haired. (Tib. སྨིན་མའི་སྤུ་མཉམ་པ་ )
  68. His hands are long and extended. (Tib. ཕྱག་རིང་ཞིང་རྒྱས་པ་ )
  69. His ears are of equal size. (Tib. སྙན་མཉམ་པ་ )
  70. His ear sense power is perfect. (Tib. སྙན་གྱི་དབང་པོ་མ་ཉམས་པ་ )
  71. His forehead is well-formed and well-defined. (Tib. དཔྲལ་བ་ལེགས་པར་འབྱེས་པ་ )
  72. His forehead is broad. (Tib. དཔྲལ་བ་འབྱེས་ཆེ་བ་ )
  73. His head is very large. (Tib. དབུ་ཤིན་ཏུ་རྒྱས་པ་ )
  74. His hair is as black as a bumblebee. (Tib. དབུ་སྐྲ་བུང་བ་ལྟར་གནག་པ་ )
  75. His hair is thick. (Tib. དབུ་སྐྲ་སྟུག་པ་ )
  76. His hair is soft. (Tib. དབུ་སྐྲ་འཇམ་པ་ )
  77. His hair is untangled. (Tib. དབུ་སྐྲ་མ་འཛིངས་པ་ )
  78. His hair is not unruly. (Tib. དབུ་སྐྲ་མི་གཤོར་བ་ )
  79. His hair is fragrant. (Tib. དབུ་སྐྲ་དྲི་ཞིམ་པ་ )
  80. His hands and feet are marked with auspicious emblems such as the glorious endless knot and svastika. (Tib. ཕྱག་ཞབས་དཔལ་བེའུ་དང་བཀྲིས་དང་གཡུང་དྲུང་འཁྱིལ་བ་ )

References

  1. ↑ Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology, Tsepak Rigdzin, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This is based on the Great Volume of Precise Understanding – Mahavyutpatti – drawn up by Tibetan translators in the ninth century at the instigation of the Tibetan dharma-king Tri Ralpachen.
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