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ཆུ་ཤེལ
rock crystal [IW]

crystal [RY]

magic stone supposed to have the power of producing water or rain, crystal, moon-stone [JV]

moon, "water crystal" [RY]

rock crystal [syn: nor bu dkar po, 'bus nas 'dzag man shel, mig la phan, zla ba'i nor bu, bsil ba'i char ldan] [IW]

(med) Moonstone, Chandrakanta (Drungtso 1999)
Synonyms : tsandra kanti (Shel gong)
Sanskrit: candrakānta (wisdomlib.org)
chu shel klu gdon tshad pa zhi bar byed / ces pa / tsandra kanti zhes bya ba'i rin po che ste / mdog dkar la sdo ba'i cha shas cung zad [088] yod pa / tshe bco lnga'i zla ba nya gang ba'i zla 'od la mtshan mo bstan pa tsam gyis mod la chu shin tu grang mo 'byung zhing / rgyu ni sa'i shel rigs su gtogs pas kasmi ra dang / ma la wa'i yul nas 'byung ba shas che la rin tshad ni snga ma dang 'dra / 'di lus la yod pas rgya gar nag gi rong tshad nad kyis mi tshugs so / rgya nag gi bzo ma zhig kyang 'byung ba tshab rung tsam mo // (Shel gong shel phreng, pdf p 087.6)

Moonstone is a trade name for any white feldspar with a blue schiller. A groupe of very common rock-forming minerals, of which Plagioclase gemstones are moonstones (phenomenon known as "adularescence" : a white-to-bluish light that floats under the surface of the stone when it is turned under a source of light). A commercial synonym is Chandrakanta (candrakanta, suryakanta and sphaṭikā are the 3 types of crystal).
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 11:54, 1 March 2024 (EST)