spru ma'i 'bu

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སྤྲུ་མའི་འབུ

(med) Caterpillar (Czaya 2019)
Synonyms : spru dkar 'bu, shu ta dye pa ('Jam-dpal)

spru ma'i 'bu ni / spru dkar 'bu / shu ta dye pa zer / spru dkar gyi lo mar yod pa'i 'bu ste / rgyus las / spru ma'i 'bu yis rtsa khrag shor ba [sdom?] / zhes gsungs so / (mDzes mtshar mig rgyan, print p 256)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (30_109) chu sbur / se sbur / bying bying thu lu / spru ma'i 'bu. 'Jam-dpal (print p 256) spru ma'i 'bu

Generally taken as a worm or caterpillar. The spru ma plant is ill defined for the moment, with a superior and inferior white type, a black and a yellow type. Furthermore, Sangye Gyatso speaks in his commentary of the Four Tantras of the 'seed of the spru ma plant', spru ma'i 'bru, with the only exception in the context of the thangka image. Most scholars have abstained from identifying spru ma'i 'bu. (Czaja, 2019).
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 17:06, 12 February 2024 (EST)