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lit. "flask-like" or "flask-shaped"; refers to a particular breathing technique known as flask-breathing during which ones belly is filled with air so as to take on the shape of the round part of a flask or vase; applied in advanced vajrayana practices dealing with the subtle channels (rtsa) and winds (rlung) of ones body, most commonly associated with the practice of inner heat or gtum mo; a proper flask-breathing sequence is always to be practiced with the four accompanying exercises of inhaling, filling, releasing and shooting (like an arrow); before attempting the practice of bum can, it would ususally be preceded by two gentler versions of it, the 'jam rlung and bar rlung or gentle breathing and intermediate breathing [TSD]


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kumbhaka, tree, vase-like manner , hold in kumbhaka [JV]
One of [[bkra bshis pa'i rtags brgyad]]; the [[Eight Auspicious Symbols]].


1 vase [vessel w kha gyer ba ??? and widened belly]; 2) chu 'khor dang lag mchig gi 'bru blug khung, ??? bottle, flask, vase, jug, pot, bulge (of a stupa). [IW]
pot-belly; a pot-belly; vase-shaped [breathing]. [[srog rtsol bum can nyams len]] practice holding the life force in a vaselike manner, vaselike manner [RY]


bottle, flask, vase, jug, pot, bulge [of a stupa]; See also [['chi med tse bum]]. [RY]
vase-breathing [Belly is like a vase, pranas are held down and up] [IW]


vase. [RB]
vase-breathing [IW]
 
dome. [RY]
 
holy water vessel, sacred bowl, vase (as treasury of all desires), bottle, ritual vessel, pot-belly stomach, water-bottle, flask, bottle-shaped ornaments in architecture, pot, urn, earthen jar, vessel for water, (1 of [[khyim bcu gnyis]]), ceremonial vase, ceremonial vase. [JV]


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lit. "flask-like" or "flask-shaped"; refers to a particular breathing technique known as flask-breathing during which ones belly is filled with air so as to take on the shape of the round part of a flask or vase; applied in advanced vajrayana practices dealing with the subtle channels (rtsa) and winds (rlung) of ones body, most commonly associated with the practice of inner heat or gtum mo; a proper flask-breathing sequence is always to be practiced with the four accompanying exercises of inhaling, filling, releasing and shooting (like an arrow); before attempting the practice of bum can, it would ususally be preceded by two gentler versions of it, the 'jam rlung and bar rlung or gentle breathing and intermediate breathing [TSD]

kumbhaka, tree, vase-like manner , hold in kumbhaka [JV]

pot-belly; a pot-belly; vase-shaped [breathing]. srog rtsol bum can nyams len practice holding the life force in a vaselike manner, vaselike manner [RY]

vase-breathing [Belly is like a vase, pranas are held down and up] [IW]

vase-breathing [IW]