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Wylie | pha gu |
Wylie Definition | brick. Rin po che'i pha gu is the rim of jewelled bricks which occurs in mandala representations. Doboom, Buddh. Path to Enlightenment, p. 61. sa phag. Btsan-lha. Wayman, Buddhist Tantras 88. 27 143. It is interesting that the Tibetan word for 'brick' should be a diminutive for the Tibetan word for 'pig,' phag. The English word porcelain is also said to have originated in Italy as porcellana, a word for cowries, given them because of their resemblance to the back of a pig (Hobson-Jobson 725). |
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