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'''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.
'''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  (Tib. ''min drug''; Wyl. ''smin drug''; Skt. ''Krittika'')
#Eta Tauri  (Skt. ''Kṛttikā''; Tib. སྨིན་དྲུག་,  ''min drug''; Wyl. ''smin drug'')  
#Aldeberan  (Tib. narma, Wyl. snar ma, Skt. Rohini)
#Aldeberan  (Skt. ''Rohini''; Tib. སྣར་མ་, ''narma''; Wyl. ''snar ma'')  
#Lambda Orionis (Tib. go, Wyl. mgo,  Skt. Mrigashira)
#Lambda Orionis (Skt. ''Mrigashīra''; Tib. མགོ་,  ''go''; Wyl. ''mgo'')  
#Alpha Orionis (Tib. lagpa, Wyl. lag pa, Skt. Ardra)
#Alpha Orionis (Skt. ''Ārdrā''; Tib. ལག་པ་,  ''lagpa''; Wyl. ''lag pa'')  
#Beta Geminorum (Tib. nabso, Wyl. nabs so, Skt. Punarvasu)  
#Beta Geminorum (Skt. ''Punarvasu''; Tib. ནབས་སོ་,  ''nabso''; Wyl. ''nabs so'')
#Delta Cancri (Tib. gyal, Wyl. rgyal, Skt. Pushya)  
#Delta Cancri (Skt. ''Pushya''; Tib. རྒྱལ་, ''gyal''; Wyl. ''rgyal'')
#Alpha Hydrae (Tib. kag, Wyl. skag, Skt. Ashlesha)  
#Alpha Hydrae (Skt. ''Ashlesha''; Tib. སྐག་,  ''kag''; Wyl. ''skag'')
#Regulus (Tib. tapa, Wyl. rta pa, Skt. Magha)
#Regulus (Skt. ''Maghā''; Tib. རྟ་པ་,  ''tapa''; Wyl. ''rta pa'')  
#Delta Leonis  (Tib. dré, Wyl. bre, Skt. Purva-Phalguni)  
#Delta Leonis  (Skt. ''Pūrva Phalgunī''; Tib. གྲེ་, ''dré''; Wyl. ''gre'')
#Beta Leonis (Tib. wo, Wyl. dbo; Skt. Uttara-Phalguni)
#Beta Leonis (Skt. ''Uttara Phalgunī'' ; Tib. དབོ་, ''wo''; Wyl. ''dbo'')  
#Delta Corvi  (Tib. mé shi; Wyl. me zhi, Skt. Hasta)  
#Delta Corvi  (Skt. ''Hasta''; Tib. མེ་བཞི་, ''mé shi''; Wyl. ''me bzhi'')
#Spica Virginis (Tib. nagpa, Wyl. nag pa, Skt. Chitra)  
#Spica Virginis (Skt. ''Chitrā'' ; Tib. ནག་པ་,  ''nagpa''; Wyl. ''nag pa'')
#Arcturus (Tib. sari, Wyl. sa ri, Skt. Svati)  
#Arcturus (Skt. ''Svātī''; Tib. ས་རི་,  ''sari''; Wyl. ''sa ri'')
#Alpha Librae (Tib. saga, Wyl. sa ga, Skt. Vishakha)
#Alpha Librae (Skt. ''Vishākhā'' ; Tib. ས་ག་, ''saga''; Wyl. ''sa ga'')  
#Delta Scorpio (Tib. hla tsam, Wyl. lha tshams, Skt. Anuradha)
#Delta Scorpio (Skt. ''Anurādhā''; Tib. ལྷ་མཚམས་,  ''hla tsam''; Wyl. ''lha mtshams'')  
#Antares (Tib. nön, Wyl. snron, Skt. Jyeshtha)  
#Antares (Skt. ''Jyeshtha''; Tib. སྣྲོན་, ''nön''; Wyl. ''snron'')  
#Lambda Scorpii (Tib. nub, Wyl. snrubs, Skt. Mula)  
#Lambda Scorpii (Skt. ''Mūla''; Tib. སྣྲུབས་,  ''nub''; Wyl. ''snrubs'')
#Delta Sagittarii (Tib. chu tö, Wyl. chu stod, Sk. Purvashadha)  
#Delta Sagittarii (Skt. ''Pūrva Ashādhā''; Tib. ཆུ་སྟོད་, ''chu tö''; Wyl. ''chu stod'')
#Sigma Sagittarii (Tib. chu mä, Wyl. chu smad, Skt. Uttara-Ashadha)  
#Sigma Sagittarii (Skt. ''Uttara Ashādhā''; Tib. ཆུ་སྨད་, ''chu mä''; Wyl. ''chu smad'')
#Alpha Aquilae (Tib. dro shin, Wyl.gro bzhin, Skt. Abhijit)  
#Alpha Aquilae (Skt. ''Abhijit''; Tib. གྲོ་བཞིན་, ''dro shin''; Wyl. ''gro bzhin'')
#Lyra (Tib. ji shin, Wyl. byi bzhin, Skt. Shravana)
#Lyra (Skt. ''Shravana'' ; Tib. བྱི་བཞིན་, ''ji shin''; Wyl. ''byi bzhin'')  
#Lamda Aquarius (Tib. mön dré, Wyl. mon gre, Skt. Dhaniastha)  
#Lamda Aquarius (Skt. ''Dhanistha''; Tib. མོན་གྲེ་, ''mön dré''; Wyl. ''mon gre'')
#Beta Delphinium (Tib. mön dru, Wyl. mon gru, Skt. Shatabhishaj)  
#Beta Delphinium (Skt. ''Shatabhisha''; Tib. མོན་གྲུ་, ''mön dru''; Wyl. ''mon gru'')
#Alpha Pegasi (Tib. trum tö,  Wyl. ‘khrum stod, Skt.Purvabhadrapada)  
#Alpha Pegasi (Skt. ''Pūrva Bhādrapadā''; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྟོད་, ''trum tö''; Wyl. ''khrums stod'')
#Gamma Pegasi (Tib. trum mä, Wyl. ‘khrum smad, Skt. Uttarabhadrapada)
#Gamma Pegasi (Skt. ''Uttara Bhādrapadā''; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྨད་,  ''trum mä''; Wyl. ''khrums smad'')  
#Zeta Piscum (Tib. nam dru, Wyl. nam gru, Skt. Revati)  
#Zeta Piscum (Skt. ''Revatī''; Tib. ནམ་གྲུ་, ''nam dru''; Wyl. ''nam gru'')
#Beta Arietis (Tib. ta kar, Wyl. tha skar, Skt. Ashvini)  
#Beta Arietis (Skt. ''Ashvinī''; Tib. ཐ་སྐར་, ''ta kar''; Wyl. ''tha skar'')
#35 Arietis (Tib. dra nyé, Wyl. bra nye, Skt. Bharani)
#35 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.

Revision as of 16:34, 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.

  1. Eta Tauri (Skt. Kṛttikā; Tib. སྨིན་དྲུག་, min drug; Wyl. smin drug)
  2. Aldeberan (Skt. Rohini; Tib. སྣར་མ་, narma; Wyl. snar ma)
  3. Lambda Orionis (Skt. Mrigashīra; Tib. མགོ་, go; Wyl. mgo)
  4. Alpha Orionis (Skt. Ārdrā; Tib. ལག་པ་, lagpa; Wyl. lag pa)
  5. Beta Geminorum (Skt. Punarvasu; Tib. ནབས་སོ་, nabso; Wyl. nabs so)
  6. Delta Cancri (Skt. Pushya; Tib. རྒྱལ་, gyal; Wyl. rgyal)
  7. Alpha Hydrae (Skt. Ashlesha; Tib. སྐག་, kag; Wyl. skag)
  8. Regulus (Skt. Maghā; Tib. རྟ་པ་, tapa; Wyl. rta pa)
  9. Delta Leonis (Skt. Pūrva Phalgunī; Tib. གྲེ་, dré; Wyl. gre)
  10. Beta Leonis (Skt. Uttara Phalgunī ; Tib. དབོ་, wo; Wyl. dbo)
  11. Delta Corvi (Skt. Hasta; Tib. མེ་བཞི་, mé shi; Wyl. me bzhi)
  12. Spica Virginis (Skt. Chitrā ; Tib. ནག་པ་, nagpa; Wyl. nag pa)
  13. Arcturus (Skt. Svātī; Tib. ས་རི་, sari; Wyl. sa ri)
  14. Alpha Librae (Skt. Vishākhā ; Tib. ས་ག་, saga; Wyl. sa ga)
  15. Delta Scorpio (Skt. Anurādhā; Tib. ལྷ་མཚམས་, hla tsam; Wyl. lha mtshams)
  16. Antares (Skt. Jyeshtha; Tib. སྣྲོན་, nön; Wyl. snron)
  17. Lambda Scorpii (Skt. Mūla; Tib. སྣྲུབས་, nub; Wyl. snrubs)
  18. Delta Sagittarii (Skt. Pūrva Ashādhā; Tib. ཆུ་སྟོད་, chu tö; Wyl. chu stod)
  19. Sigma Sagittarii (Skt. Uttara Ashādhā; Tib. ཆུ་སྨད་, chu mä; Wyl. chu smad)
  20. Alpha Aquilae (Skt. Abhijit; Tib. གྲོ་བཞིན་, dro shin; Wyl. gro bzhin)
  21. Lyra (Skt. Shravana ; Tib. བྱི་བཞིན་, ji shin; Wyl. byi bzhin)
  22. Lamda Aquarius (Skt. Dhanistha; Tib. མོན་གྲེ་, mön dré; Wyl. mon gre)
  23. Beta Delphinium (Skt. Shatabhisha; Tib. མོན་གྲུ་, mön dru; Wyl. mon gru)
  24. Alpha Pegasi (Skt. Pūrva Bhādrapadā; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྟོད་, trum tö; Wyl. khrums stod)
  25. Gamma Pegasi (Skt. Uttara Bhādrapadā; Tib. ཁྲུམས་སྨད་, trum mä; Wyl. khrums smad)
  26. Zeta Piscum (Skt. Revatī; Tib. ནམ་གྲུ་, nam dru; Wyl. nam gru)
  27. Beta Arietis (Skt. Ashvinī; Tib. ཐ་སྐར་, ta kar; Wyl. tha skar)
  28. 35 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.

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