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Ritual instruments used in Vajrayana.
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The [[eight auspicious substances]] ([[bkra shis rdzas brgyad]]) - Included in this list are:
  
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# mirror or looking glass. - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[མེ་ལོང།]]༻</span> - [[me long]].
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# curds - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[ཞོ།]]༻</span> - [[zho]].
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# panicum dactylon grass - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[རྩྭ་དུར་བ།]]༻</span> - [[rtsva dur ba]].
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# wood-apply fruit - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[ཤིང་ཏོག་བིལ་བ།]]༻</span> - [[shing tog bil ba]].
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# right-coiling conch shell - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[དུང་གཡས་འཁྱིལ།]]༻</span> - [[dung g.yas 'khyil]].
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# bezoars, [elephant bile] - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[གྷི་ཝང།]]༻</span> - [[ghi wang]].
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# vermilion powder - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[ལི་ཁྲི།]]༻</span> - [[li khri]].
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# white mustard seeds - <span class=TibUni16>༺[[ཡུངས་ཀར།]]༻</span> - [[yungs kar]]. [RY]
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Also called [[Eight Auspicious Articles]].
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Latest revision as of 09:14, 20 September 2009

The eight auspicious substances (bkra shis rdzas brgyad) - Included in this list are:

  1. mirror or looking glass. - མེ་ལོང། - me long.
  2. curds - ཞོ། - zho.
  3. panicum dactylon grass - རྩྭ་དུར་བ། - rtsva dur ba.
  4. wood-apply fruit - ཤིང་ཏོག་བིལ་བ། - shing tog bil ba.
  5. right-coiling conch shell - དུང་གཡས་འཁྱིལ། - dung g.yas 'khyil.
  6. bezoars, [elephant bile] - གྷི་ཝང། - ghi wang.
  7. vermilion powder - ལི་ཁྲི། - li khri.
  8. white mustard seeds - ཡུངས་ཀར། - yungs kar. [RY]

Also called Eight Auspicious Articles.