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'''Eight charnel ground ornaments''' (Tib. | '''Eight charnel ground ornaments''' (Tib. དུར་ཁྲོད་ཆས་བརྒྱད་,''durtrö ché gyé'', [[Wyl.]] ''dur khrod chas brgyad'' ) of a wrathful deity are: | ||
#The three garments (Tib. | #The three garments (Tib. བགོ་བའི་གོས་གསུམ་, Wyl. ''bgo ba’i gos gsum''): elephant, human, and tiger skin; | ||
#Two fastened ornaments ( | #Two fastened ornaments (Tib་གདགས་པའི་རྒྱན་གཉིས་, Wyl. ''gdags pa’i rgyan gnyis''): human skulls and snakes; and | ||
#Three smeared | #Three smeared substances (Tib.བྱུག་པའི་རྫས་གསུམ་, Wyl. ''byug pa’i rdzas gsum''): ashes, blood, and grease. <ref>* Thinley Norbu, ''The Small Golden Key''.</ref> | ||
These also form part of the [[ten glorious ornaments]]. | These also form part of the [[ten glorious ornaments]]. | ||
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:::The black-spotted snake belt or sash which symbolizes the subjugation of the lowest caste of nagas. <ref>* Ibid.</ref> | :::The black-spotted snake belt or sash which symbolizes the subjugation of the lowest caste of nagas. <ref>* Ibid.</ref> | ||
*The three smeared | *The three smeared substances which symbolize the subjugation of jealousy, are: | ||
:Ashes on the forehead, | :Ashes on the forehead, | ||
:Blood on the bridge of the nose, or the cheeks, and | :Blood on the bridge of the nose, or the cheeks, and | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
<small><references/></small> | <small><references/></small> | ||
[[Category: Vajrayana]] | |||
[[Category: Deity Ornaments]] | |||
[[Category: Enumerations]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 06:22, 20 September 2018
Eight charnel ground ornaments (Tib. དུར་ཁྲོད་ཆས་བརྒྱད་,durtrö ché gyé, Wyl. dur khrod chas brgyad ) of a wrathful deity are:
- The three garments (Tib. བགོ་བའི་གོས་གསུམ་, Wyl. bgo ba’i gos gsum): elephant, human, and tiger skin;
- Two fastened ornaments (Tib་གདགས་པའི་རྒྱན་གཉིས་, Wyl. gdags pa’i rgyan gnyis): human skulls and snakes; and
- Three smeared substances (Tib.བྱུག་པའི་རྫས་གསུམ་, Wyl. byug pa’i rdzas gsum): ashes, blood, and grease. [1]
These also form part of the ten glorious ornaments.
- The three garments:
- An elephant skin is a sign that ignorance has been subdued by the ten strengths;
- A human skin is a sign that desire has been subdued by desireless great compassion; and
- A tiger skin is a sign that anger or hatred has been subdued by wrathful compassion[2]
- The two kinds of fastened ornaments:
- Dried and fresh human skull ornaments, which are
- The crown of five dry human skulls,
- The garland of fifty fresh heads,
- The bracelets of fragments of human heads. [3]
- Dried and fresh human skull ornaments, which are
- Snake ornaments:
- The white-spotted snake hair ribbon, which symbolizes the subjugation of the caste of naga kings;
- The yellow-spotted snake earrings, which symbolize the subjugation of the caste of naga nobility;
- The red-spotted snake necklace which symbolizes the subjugation of the Brahmin caste of nagas;
- The green-spotted snake bracelets which symbolize the subjugation of the ordinary caste of nagas; and
- The black-spotted snake belt or sash which symbolizes the subjugation of the lowest caste of nagas. [4]
- Snake ornaments:
- The three smeared substances which symbolize the subjugation of jealousy, are:
- Ashes on the forehead,
- Blood on the bridge of the nose, or the cheeks, and
- Mouldy grease on the chin. [5]