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བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྫས་བརྒྱད
བཀྲ་ཤིས་རྫས་བརྒྱད།

see also eight auspicious substances. [RB]

the 8 auspicious articles. [IW]

the Eight Auspicious Articles [blessed by the Buddha 1) (mirror, me long; 2) curds, zho; 3) panicum dactylo grass rtsva dur ba; 4) wood-apple fruit, shing tog bil ba; 5) right-coiling conch shell, dung g.yas 'khyil; 6)bezoar/ (elephant bile), ghi wang; 7) vermilion powder, li khri; 8) white mustard seeds, yungs kar.]. [IW]

the eight auspicious substances:

  1. mirror or looking glass. - མེ་ལོང། - me long.
  2. curds - ཞོ། - zho.
  3. panicum dactylon grass - རྩྭ་དུར་བ། - rtsva dur ba.
  4. wood-apply fruit - ཤིང་ཏོག་བིལ་བ། - shing tog bil ba.
  5. right-coiling conch shell - དུང་གཡས་འཁྱིལ། - dung g.yas 'khyil.
  6. bezoars, [elephant bile] - གྷི་ཝང། - ghi wang.
  7. vermilion powder - ལི་ཁྲི། - li khri.
  8. white mustard seeds - ཡུངས་ཀར། - yungs kar. [RY]

Also, with variations on some of the spellings:

eight auspicious substances, the eight sacred articles blessed by Buddha. 1) mirror me long. 2) bezoars, [elephant bile] gi wang. 3) curd/yogurt zho. 4) panicum dactylon grass rtsa dur ba. 5) wood-apple fruit shing tog bil ba. 6) right-coiling conch shell dung dkar g.yas 'khyil. 7) vermilion powder li khri. Syn sin dhu ra. 8) white mustard seed yungs dkar. [RY]

8 auspicious articles - (white mustard, panicum dactylon, wood-apple, vermillion powder, curds, bezoar, mirror, conch shell), also 8 lucky articles: (me long, gi wang, zho, rtsa dur ba, shing tog pil ba, dung dkar g.yas 'khyil, li khri, yungs dkar), eight auspicious articles - (mirror, yogurt, bezoar, dextrose, spiraling conch shell, white mustard, li khri mineral, dur ba grass, fruits of the bil ba). [JV]