Eight Auspicious Substances
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The eight auspicious substances (bkra shis rdzas brgyad) - Included in this list are:
- mirror or looking glass. - ༺མེ་ལོང།༻ - me long.
- curds - ༺ཞོ།༻ - zho.
- panicum dactylon grass - ༺རྩྭ་དུར་བ།༻ - rtsva dur ba.
- wood-apply fruit - ༺ཤིང་ཏོག་བིལ་བ།༻ - shing tog bil ba.
- right-coiling conch shell - ༺དུང་གཡས་འཁྱིལ།༻ - dung g.yas 'khyil.
- bezoars, [elephant bile] - ༺གྷི་ཝང།༻ - ghi wang.
- vermilion powder - ༺ལི་ཁྲི།༻ - li khri.
- white mustard seeds - ༺ཡུངས་ཀར།༻ - yungs kar. [RY]
Also called Eight Auspicious Articles.