mchod sdong

mchod sdong

Pillar is a rather loose rendering for this term, which refers more specifically to ceremonial or memorial columns, or to the sacrificial posts used in Vedic rituals (cf. Monier-Williams).
pillars

A post set up as a marker to which offerings may be presented. Described in the Maitreyāvadāna ("The Story of Maitreya"), which in the Kangyur is found within the Bhaiṣajyavastu (in Vinayavastu, Toh 1, Degé Kangyur, vol. kha, folios 29a-32b); a matching passage from the Divyāvadāna is translated in Rotman, 2008, pp 121-124.

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