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Wylie pha gu
Wylie Definition brick. Rin po che'i pha gu is the rim of jewelled bricks which occurs in mandala representations. Doboom, Buddh. Path to Enlightenment, p. 61. sa phag. Btsan-lha. Wayman, Buddhist Tantras 88. 27 143. It is interesting that the Tibetan word for 'brick' should be a diminutive for the Tibetan word for 'pig,' phag. The English word porcelain is also said to have originated in Italy as porcellana, a word for cowries, given them because of their resemblance to the back of a pig (Hobson-Jobson 725).
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