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gzi onyx having blue, red, and white designs [IW]

(med) Agate (Yeshi 2018)
khra man gza' nad 'byung po'i gdon kun thub / ces pa / dkar khra man te 'di ngos 'dzin mang yang / gzi'i rgyu las ri mo sngo dkar dmar sogs ma nges pa zhig yong ba / rigs gcig ni gzi nag khra 'gyur mig dgu pa yin par bshad / dpyad don las / sngo ljang dmar ser 'dres pa mig gi rgyan / lci la snyi zhing la dril 'dra na bzang / dangs shing mkhregs na rgya yi bzo ma ste / 'di ni chu las byung ba'i rin po che / rnga yab gling nas shang shang nying kyis khyer / u rgyan mkha' 'gro'i gnas su tshong sprad pas / da lta dkar gyi khra man zhes su grags / 'di nyid btags na gza' skar steng gdon thub / ces so // (Shel gong shel phreng, pdf p 089.3)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las (31_001) dkar khra men

Agate is a distinctly banded fibrous chalcedony where the chalcedony fibers grow from the walls to the interior of a cavity, and a concentric, onion-like pattern develops. Agate can be colourless, white, red or any colour due to embedded minerals. Multicoloured specimens are quite common (see also lig bu mig, gzi and rdo'i snying po). Because the colors and patterns found in agates are so varied and so characteristic for the respective localities, there is a confusingly large number of ever-changing varietal and trade names (mindat.org).
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 11:58, 29 February 2024 (EST)