se rul

This is the RYI Dictionary content as presented on the site http://rywiki.tsadra.org/, which is being changed fundamentally and will become hard to use within the GoldenDict application. If you are using GoldenDict, please either download and import the rydic2003 file from DigitalTibetan (WayBack Machine version as the site was shut down in November 2021).

Or go directly to http://rywiki.tsadra.org/ for more upcoming features.

སེ་རུལ
kind of mineral earth used as medicine, probably bismuth, yak-cow's dung [JV]

1) old and torn/ tattered; 2) se rul earth med. [IW]

(med) Bismuth (Yeshi 2018). Earth plaster from a housewall ('Phrin Las 1987)
Synonyms : sa dreg bcas (Yeshi 2018)

se rul 'khrugs tshad dug nad sel bar byed / ces pa / ro skor lcags kyi phreng ba las / [143] lo stong lon pa'i se rul ni / bsil la 'jam pas rim la phan / zhes pa / gyang rnying sa ral brag rtsa sogs las 'byung ba'i ba tsha ltar chags pa'i sa kha dog ser skya ro kha ba de'o // (Shel gong shel phreng, pdf p 142.6)

Illustrations : 'Phrin Las 1987 (32_088) khang pa'i se rul brkod ba

Natural earth medicine. Yeshi (2018) identifies se rul with Bismuth (Bi), a creamish to reddish white metal with iridescent tarnish. Mining sites in Tibet (mindat.org). The image of the Medical Thangkas depicts the earth plaster of a house wall. Das (1902) gives 'probably bismuth, also yak-cow's dung collected in autumn for manure'.
Johannes Schmidt (talk) 14:32, 25 February 2024 (EST)