དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ། | Glossary of Terms
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དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
- aśītyanuvyañjanāni
- caturaśītyanuvyañjana
- aśītyānuvyañjana
- asītyānuvyañjana
- asītyanuvyañjana
- Term
A set of eighty bodily characteristics and insignia borne by both buddhas and kings of the entire world (cakravartins). They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two characteristics of a great being.
- eighty minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
Eighty of the hundred and twelve identifying physical characteristics of both buddhas and universal monarchs, in addition to the so-called “thirty-two marks of a great being.” They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two marks. These can be found listed in UT22084-046-001-476.
- eighty minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
Eighty of the hundred and twelve identifying physical characteristics of both buddhas and universal monarchs, in addition to the so-called “thirty-two marks of a great being.” They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two marks.
- eighty minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- asītyanuvyañjana
A set of eighty bodily characteristics borne by buddhas and universal emperors. They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two major marks of a great being.
- eighty minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
The set of eighty physical marks that identify both a buddha and a universal monarch (cakravartin); in the case of the former they indicate the perfection of the awakened state of buddhahood.
- eighty minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
A set of eighty bodily characteristics and insignia borne by both buddhas and universal emperors. They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two marks of a great person.
- eighty excellent signs
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
The eighty minor or secondary signs possessed by a “great being” (mahāpuruṣa), which all buddhas are said to have.
- eighty excellent signs
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyānuvyañjana
A set of eighty bodily characteristics and insignia borne by both buddhas and cakravartins. For a complete list see the Aṣṭādaśasāhasrikāprajñāpāramitā Sūtra (The Perfection of Wisdom in Eighteen Thousand Lines), 73.93.
- Eighty excellent signs
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
A set of eighty bodily characteristics and insignia borne by both buddhas and universal emperors. They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two marks of a great being.
- eighty excellent minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- asītyānuvyañjana
For their enumeration see UT22084-026-001-5841. (See also Toh 10, Toh 11).
- eighty excellent minor marks
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjanāni
- 八十種好
A secondary series of identifying physical features of a great being.
- eighty excellent features
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
- 八十隨好
A set of eighty bodily characteristics borne by buddhas and universal emperors. They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two major marks of a great being.
These can be found listed, for example, in Prajñāpāramitā sūtras (see Toh 9, Toh 10, Toh 11) or in The Play in Full (Toh 95, UT22084-046-001-476) and many other sūtras.
- Eighty minor marks of perfection
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- aśītyanuvyañjana
A set of eighty bodily characteristics and insignia borne by both buddhas and universal monarchs. For a comprehensive list of the eighty marks see Negi (3333). These are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the “thirty-two signs of great persons.” For a comprehensive list of the eighty and thirty-two marks see Berzin (2012).
- eighty sublime characteristics
- དཔེ་བྱད་བཟང་པོ་བརྒྱད་ཅུ།
- dpe byad bzang po brgyad cu
- caturaśītyanuvyañjana
The eighty secondary physical characteristics of a buddha and of other great beings (mahāpuruṣa), they include such details as the redness of the fingernails and the blackness of the hair. They are considered “minor” in terms of being secondary to the thirty-two marks of a great being.