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'''Twenty eight lunar constellations''' ([[Wyl.]] ''rgyu skar nyi shu rtsa brgyad''), sometimes referred to as '''28 lunar mansions''' (Skt. ''nakshatra'') — the 28 nakshatras comprise a lunar zodiac marking the passage of the moon around the night sky, and are alluded to in the [[Vedas]]. In ancient Indian culture each nakshatra was considered to be the sacred abode of a particular deity and this also continued in the Tibetan tradition. | '''Twenty eight lunar constellations''' (Tib. རྒྱུ་སྐར་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་, ''gyukar nyishu tsa gyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''rgyu skar nyi shu rtsa brgyad''), sometimes referred to as '''28 lunar mansions''' (Skt. ''nakshatra'') — the 28 nakshatras comprise a lunar zodiac marking the passage of the moon around the night sky, and are alluded to in the [[Vedas]]. In ancient Indian culture each nakshatra was considered to be the sacred abode of a particular deity and this also continued in the Tibetan tradition. | ||
#Eta Tauri ( | #Eta Tauri (Skt. ''Kṛttikā''; Tib. སྨིན་དྲུག་, ''min drug''; Wyl. ''smin drug'') | ||
#Aldeberan (Tib. narma | #Aldeberan (Skt. ''Rohini''; Tib. སྣར་མ་, ''narma''; Wyl. ''snar ma'') | ||
#Lambda Orionis (Tib. go | #Lambda Orionis (Skt. ''Mrigashīra''; Tib. མགོ་, ''go''; Wyl. ''mgo'') | ||
#Alpha Orionis (Tib. lagpa | #Alpha Orionis (Skt. ''Ārdrā''; Tib. ལག་པ་, ''lagpa''; Wyl. ''lag pa'') | ||
#Beta Geminorum (Tib. nabso | #Beta Geminorum (Skt. ''Punarvasu''; Tib. ནབས་སོ་, ''nabso''; Wyl. ''nabs so'') | ||
#Delta Cancri (Tib. gyal | #Delta Cancri (Skt. ''Pushya''; Tib. རྒྱལ་, ''gyal''; Wyl. ''rgyal'') | ||
#Alpha Hydrae (Tib. kag | #Alpha Hydrae (Skt. ''Ashlesha''; Tib. སྐག་, ''kag''; Wyl. ''skag'') | ||
#Regulus (Tib. tapa | #Regulus (Skt. ''Maghā''; Tib. རྟ་པ་, ''tapa''; Wyl. ''rta pa'') | ||
#Delta Leonis (Tib. dré | #Delta Leonis (Skt. ''Pūrva Phalgunī''; Tib. གྲེ་, ''dré''; Wyl. ''gre'') | ||
#Beta Leonis (Tib. wo | #Beta Leonis (Skt. ''Uttara Phalgunī'' ; Tib. དབོ་, ''wo''; Wyl. ''dbo'') | ||
#Delta Corvi (Tib. mé shi; Wyl. me | #Delta Corvi (Skt. ''Hasta''; Tib. མེ་བཞི་, ''mé shi''; Wyl. ''me bzhi'') | ||
#Spica Virginis (Tib. nagpa | #Spica Virginis (Skt. ''Chitrā'' ; Tib. ནག་པ་, ''nagpa''; Wyl. ''nag pa'') | ||
#Arcturus (Tib. sari | #Arcturus (Skt. ''Svātī''; Tib. ས་རི་, ''sari''; Wyl. ''sa ri'') | ||
#Alpha Librae (Tib. saga | #Alpha Librae (Skt. ''Vishākhā'' ; Tib. ས་ག་, ''saga''; Wyl. ''sa ga'') | ||
#Delta Scorpio (Tib. hla tsam | #Delta Scorpio (Skt. ''Anurādhā''; Tib. ལྷ་མཚམས་, ''hla tsam''; Wyl. ''lha mtshams'') | ||
#Antares (Tib. nön | #Antares (Skt. ''Jyeshtha''; Tib. སྣྲོན་, ''nön''; Wyl. ''snron'') | ||
#Lambda Scorpii (Tib. nub | #Lambda Scorpii (Skt. ''Mūla''; Tib. སྣྲུབས་, ''nub''; Wyl. ''snrubs'') | ||
#Delta Sagittarii (Tib. chu tö | #Delta Sagittarii (Skt. ''Pūrva Ashādhā''; Tib. ཆུ་སྟོད་, ''chu tö''; Wyl. ''chu stod'') | ||
#Sigma Sagittarii (Tib. chu mä | #Sigma Sagittarii (Skt. ''Uttara Ashādhā''; Tib. ཆུ་སྨད་, ''chu mä''; Wyl. ''chu smad'') | ||
#Alpha Aquilae (Tib. dro shin | #Alpha Aquilae (Skt. ''Abhijit''; Tib. གྲོ་བཞིན་, ''dro shin''; Wyl. ''gro bzhin'') | ||
#Lyra (Tib. ji shin | #Lyra (Skt. ''Shravana'' ; Tib. བྱི་བཞིན་, ''ji shin''; Wyl. ''byi bzhin'') | ||
#Lamda Aquarius (Tib. mön dré | #Lamda Aquarius (Skt. ''Dhanistha''; Tib. མོན་གྲེ་, ''mön dré''; Wyl. ''mon gre'') | ||
#Beta Delphinium (Tib. mön dru | #Beta Delphinium (Skt. ''Shatabhisha''; Tib. མོན་གྲུ་, ''mön dru''; Wyl. ''mon gru'') | ||
#Alpha Pegasi (Tib. trum tö | #Alpha Pegasi (Skt. ''Pūrva Bhādrapadā''; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྟོད་, ''trum tö''; Wyl. ''khrums stod'') | ||
#Gamma Pegasi (Tib. trum mä | #Gamma Pegasi (Skt. ''Uttara Bhādrapadā''; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྨད་, ''trum mä''; Wyl. ''khrums smad'') | ||
#Zeta Piscum (Tib. nam dru | #Zeta Piscum (Skt. ''Revatī''; Tib. ནམ་གྲུ་, ''nam dru''; Wyl. ''nam gru'') | ||
#Beta Arietis (Tib. ta kar | #Beta Arietis (Skt. ''Ashvinī''; Tib. ཐ་སྐར་, ''ta kar''; Wyl. ''tha skar'') | ||
# | #Arietis (Skt. ''Bharanī''; Tib. བྲ་ཉེ་, ''dra nyé''; Wyl. ''bra nye'') | ||
Sometimes there is mention of only 27 lunar constellations or nakshatras as, after the introduction of the zodiac into India, probably in the second century AD, the nakshatras became redefined. Asvini, with marking stars Beta and Gamma Arietis, became the premier nakshatra, and one of the nakshatras became discarded, leaving 27 nakshatra. | Sometimes there is mention of only 27 lunar constellations or nakshatras as, after the introduction of the zodiac into India, probably in the second century AD, the nakshatras became redefined. Asvini, with marking stars Beta and Gamma Arietis, became the premier nakshatra, and one of the nakshatras became discarded, leaving 27 nakshatra. | ||
Latest revision as of 20:18, 8 January 2018
Twenty eight lunar constellations (Tib. རྒྱུ་སྐར་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་, gyukar nyishu tsa gyé, Wyl. rgyu skar nyi shu rtsa brgyad), sometimes referred to as 28 lunar mansions (Skt. nakshatra) — the 28 nakshatras comprise a lunar zodiac marking the passage of the moon around the night sky, and are alluded to in the Vedas. In ancient Indian culture each nakshatra was considered to be the sacred abode of a particular deity and this also continued in the Tibetan tradition.
- Eta Tauri (Skt. Kṛttikā; Tib. སྨིན་དྲུག་, min drug; Wyl. smin drug)
- Aldeberan (Skt. Rohini; Tib. སྣར་མ་, narma; Wyl. snar ma)
- Lambda Orionis (Skt. Mrigashīra; Tib. མགོ་, go; Wyl. mgo)
- Alpha Orionis (Skt. Ārdrā; Tib. ལག་པ་, lagpa; Wyl. lag pa)
- Beta Geminorum (Skt. Punarvasu; Tib. ནབས་སོ་, nabso; Wyl. nabs so)
- Delta Cancri (Skt. Pushya; Tib. རྒྱལ་, gyal; Wyl. rgyal)
- Alpha Hydrae (Skt. Ashlesha; Tib. སྐག་, kag; Wyl. skag)
- Regulus (Skt. Maghā; Tib. རྟ་པ་, tapa; Wyl. rta pa)
- Delta Leonis (Skt. Pūrva Phalgunī; Tib. གྲེ་, dré; Wyl. gre)
- Beta Leonis (Skt. Uttara Phalgunī ; Tib. དབོ་, wo; Wyl. dbo)
- Delta Corvi (Skt. Hasta; Tib. མེ་བཞི་, mé shi; Wyl. me bzhi)
- Spica Virginis (Skt. Chitrā ; Tib. ནག་པ་, nagpa; Wyl. nag pa)
- Arcturus (Skt. Svātī; Tib. ས་རི་, sari; Wyl. sa ri)
- Alpha Librae (Skt. Vishākhā ; Tib. ས་ག་, saga; Wyl. sa ga)
- Delta Scorpio (Skt. Anurādhā; Tib. ལྷ་མཚམས་, hla tsam; Wyl. lha mtshams)
- Antares (Skt. Jyeshtha; Tib. སྣྲོན་, nön; Wyl. snron)
- Lambda Scorpii (Skt. Mūla; Tib. སྣྲུབས་, nub; Wyl. snrubs)
- Delta Sagittarii (Skt. Pūrva Ashādhā; Tib. ཆུ་སྟོད་, chu tö; Wyl. chu stod)
- Sigma Sagittarii (Skt. Uttara Ashādhā; Tib. ཆུ་སྨད་, chu mä; Wyl. chu smad)
- Alpha Aquilae (Skt. Abhijit; Tib. གྲོ་བཞིན་, dro shin; Wyl. gro bzhin)
- Lyra (Skt. Shravana ; Tib. བྱི་བཞིན་, ji shin; Wyl. byi bzhin)
- Lamda Aquarius (Skt. Dhanistha; Tib. མོན་གྲེ་, mön dré; Wyl. mon gre)
- Beta Delphinium (Skt. Shatabhisha; Tib. མོན་གྲུ་, mön dru; Wyl. mon gru)
- Alpha Pegasi (Skt. Pūrva Bhādrapadā; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྟོད་, trum tö; Wyl. khrums stod)
- Gamma Pegasi (Skt. Uttara Bhādrapadā; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྨད་, trum mä; Wyl. khrums smad)
- Zeta Piscum (Skt. Revatī; Tib. ནམ་གྲུ་, nam dru; Wyl. nam gru)
- Beta Arietis (Skt. Ashvinī; Tib. ཐ་སྐར་, ta kar; Wyl. tha skar)
- Arietis (Skt. Bharanī; Tib. བྲ་ཉེ་, dra nyé; Wyl. bra nye)
Sometimes there is mention of only 27 lunar constellations or nakshatras as, after the introduction of the zodiac into India, probably in the second century AD, the nakshatras became redefined. Asvini, with marking stars Beta and Gamma Arietis, became the premier nakshatra, and one of the nakshatras became discarded, leaving 27 nakshatra.