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'''Ten glorious ornaments''' (Tib. <big>དཔལ་གྱི་ཆས་བཅུ།</big>, Wyl. ''dpal gyi chas bcu'') are the [[eight charnel ground ornaments]] plus the blazing fire of wisdom (Tib.<big>ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མེ་དཔུང།</big>, Wyl. ''ye shes kyi me dpung''), and vajra wings (Tib.<big>རྡོ་རྗེའི་གཤོག་པ།</big>, Wyl. ''rdo rje’i gshog pa''). <ref>* Thinley Norbu, ''The Small Golden Key'', and Robert Beer, ''The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols'' </ref>
'''Ten glorious ornaments''' (Tib. <big>དཔལ་གྱི་ཆས་བཅུ།</big>, [[Wyl.]] ''dpal gyi chas bcu'') are the [[eight charnel ground ornaments]] plus the blazing fire of wisdom (Tib.<big>ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་མེ་དཔུང།</big>, Wyl. ''ye shes kyi me dpung''), and vajra wings (Tib.<big>རྡོ་རྗེའི་གཤོག་པ།</big>, Wyl. ''rdo rje’i gshog pa''). <ref>* Thinley Norbu, ''The Small Golden Key'', and Robert Beer, ''The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols'' </ref>


The mass of flames of the 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 mass of flames of the 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>


According to another system there is also an alternative listing of [[eight glorious ornaments]].   
According to another system there is also an alternative listing of [[eight glorious ornaments]].   
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Revision as of 22:29, 6 September 2011

Ten glorious ornaments (Tib. དཔལ་གྱི་ཆས་བཅུ།, Wyl. dpal gyi chas bcu) are the eight charnel ground ornaments plus 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 mass of flames of the 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

  1. * Thinley Norbu, The Small Golden Key, and Robert Beer, The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols
  2. * Robert Beer, The Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist Symbols.