Thirty-two major marks of a buddha

From Rigpa Wiki
Revision as of 16:36, 23 December 2011 by Tsondru (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

The thirty–two major marks of a buddha (Tib. མཚན་བཟང་པོ་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གཉིས་) are:

  • 1. The palms of his hands and soles of his feet bear signs of a wheel. (Tib. ཕྱག་ཞབས་འཁོར་ལོའུ་མཚན་དང་ལྡན་པ་)
  • 2. His feet are well set upon the ground like those of a tortoise. (Tib. རུས་སྦལ་བཞིན་དུ་ཞབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་གནས་པ་)
  • 3. His fingers and toes are webbed. (Tib. ཕྱག་དང་ཞབས་ཀྱི་སོར་མོ་དྲ་བས་འབྲེལ་་པ་)
  • 4. His hands and feet are smooth and tender. (Tib. ཕྱག་དང་ཞབས་འཇམ་ཤིང་གཞོན་ཤ་ཆགས་པ་)
  • 5. His body has seven prominent features: broad heels, broad hands, broad shoulder blades and broad neck. (Tib. ཕྱག་དང་ཞབས་དང་ཐལ་གོང་དང་ལྟག་པའི་ཕྱོགས་མཐོ་བའི་ཕྱིར་སྐུ་ནི་བདུན་མཐོ་བ་)
  • 6. His fingers are long. (Tib. སོར་མོ་རིང་བ་)
  • 7. His heels are soft. (Tib. རྟིང་བ་ཡངས་བ་)
  • 8. He is tall and straight. (Tib. སྐུ་ཆེ་ཞིང་དྲང་བ་)
  • 9. His ankle-bones do not protrude. (Tib. ཞབས་ཀྱི་ལོང་བུ་མི་མངོན་པ་)
  • 10. The hairs on his body point upward. (Tib. སྐུའི་སྤུ་གྱེན་དུ་ཕྱོགས་པ་)
  • 11. His ankles are like those of an antelope. (Tib. བྱིན་པ་རི་དྭགས་ཨེ་ན་ཡའི་ལྟ་བུ་)
  • 12. His hands are long and beautiful. (Tib. ཕྱསག་རིང་ཞིང་མཛེས་པ་)
  • 13. His male organ is withdrawn. (Tib. འདོམས་ཀྱི་ལྦ་བ་སྦུབས་སུ་ནུབ་པ་)
  • 14. His body is the colour of gold. (Tib. སྐུ་མདོག་གསེར་འདྲ་བ་)
  • 15. His skin is smooth. (Tib. ལྦགས་པ་འཇམ་པ་)
  • 16. Each hair curls to the right. (Tib. སྤུ་རེ་རེ་ནས་གཡས་ཕྱོགས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བ་)
  • 17. His face is adorned with a coiled hair between his eyebrows. (Tib. ཞལ་མཛོད་སྦུས་བརྒྱན་བ་)
  • 18. The upper part of his body is like that of a lion. (Tib. རོ་སྟོད་སེང་གེ་འདྲ་བ་)
  • 19. His head and shoulders are perfectly round. (Tib. དཔུང་འགོ་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཟླུམ་པ་)
  • 20. His shoulders are broad. (Tib. ཐལ་གོང་རྒྱས་པ་)
  • 21. He has an excellent sense of taste. (Tib. རོ་བྲོ་བའི་མཆོག་མཁྱེན་པ་)
  • 22. His body has the proportions of a banyan tree. (Tib. ཤིང་ཉ་གྲོ་རྡ་ལྟར་ཆུ་ཞེང་གབ་པ་)
  • 23. He has a protrusion on the crown of his head. (Tib. དབུ་གཙུག་ཏོར་དང་ལྡན་པ་)
  • 24. His tongue is long. (Tib. ལྗགས་རིང་བ་)
  • 25. His voice mellifluent. (Tib. གསུང་ཚངས་དབྱངས་དང་ལྡན་པ་)
  • 26. His cheeks are like those of a lion. (Tib. འགྲམ་པ་སེང་གེ་འདྲ་བ་)
  • 27. His teeth are white. (Tib. ཚེམས་དཀར་བ་)
  • 28. There are no gaps between his teeth. (Tib. ཚེམས་མཉམ་པ་)
  • 29. His teeth are evenly set. (Tib. ཚེམས་ཐགས་བཟང་བ་)
  • 30. He has a total of forty teeth. (Tib. ཚེམས་བཞི་བཅུ་མངའ་བ་)
  • 31. His eyes are the colour of sapphire. (Tib. སྤྱན་་མཐོན་མཐིང་ཅན་)
  • 32. His eyelashes are like those of a magnificent heifer. (Tib. རྫི་མ་བའི་ལྟ་བུ་) [1]

References

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

Further Reading

  • Mipham, Gateway to Knowledge, Volume III, pages 239-242
Retrieved from "https://www.rigpawiki.org/index.php?title=Thirty-two_major_marks_of_a_buddha&oldid=67665"