Thirty-two major marks of a buddha

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The thirty–two major marks of a buddha (Tib. མཚན་བཟང་པོ་སུམ་ཅུ་རྩ་གཉིས་) are:

  • 1. The palms of his hands and soles of his feet bear signs of a wheel. (Tib. ཕྱག་ཞབས་འཁོར་ལོའུ་མཚན་དང་ལྡན་པ་)
  • 2. His feet are well set upon the ground like those of a tortoise. (Tib. རུས་སྦལ་བཞིན་དུ་ཞབས་ཤིན་ཏུ་གནས་པ་)
  • 3. His fingers and toes are webbed. (Tib. ཕྱག་དང་ཞབས་ཀྱི་སོར་མོ་དྲ་བས་འབྲེལ་་པ་)
  • 4. His hands and feet are smooth and tender. (Tib. ཕྱག་དང་ཞབས་འཇམ་ཤིང་གཞོན་ཤ་ཆགས་པ་)
  • 5. His body has seven prominent features: broad heels, broad hands, broad shoulder blades and broad neck. (Tib. ཕྱག་དང་ཞབས་དང་ཐལ་གོང་དང་ལྟག་པའི་ཕྱོགས་མཐོ་བའི་ཕྱིར་སྐུ་ནི་

བདུན་མཐོ་བ་)

  • 6. His fingers are long. (Tib. སོར་མོ་རིང་བ་)
  • 7. His heels are soft. (Tib. རྟིང་བ་ཡངས་བ་)
  • 8. He is tall and straight. (Tib. སྐུ་ཆེ་ཞིང་དྲང་བ་)
  • 9. His ankle-bones do not protrude. (Tib. ཞབས་ཀྱི་ལོང་བུ་མི་མངོན་པ་)
  • 10. The hairs on his body point upward. (Tib. སྐུའི་སྤུ་གྱེན་དུ་ཕྱོགས་པ་)
  • 11. His ankles are like those of an antelope. (Tib. བྱིན་པ་རི་དྭགས་ཨེ་ན་ཡའི་ལྟ་བུ་)
  • 12. His hands are long and beautiful. (Tib. ཕྱསག་རིང་ཞིང་མཛེས་པ་)
  • 13. His male organ is withdrawn. (Tib. འདོམས་ཀྱི་ལྦ་བ་སྦུབས་སུ་ནུབ་པ་)
  • 14. His body is the colour of gold. (Tib. སྐུ་མདོག་གསེར་འདྲ་བ་)
  • 15. His skin is smooth. (Tib. ལྦགས་པ་འཇམ་པ་)
  • 16. Each hair curls to the right. (Tib. སྤུ་རེ་རེ་ནས་གཡས་ཕྱོགས་སུ་འཁྱིལ་བ་)
  • 17. His face is adorned with a coiled hair between his eyebrows. (Tib. ཞལ་མཛོད་སྦུས་བརྒྱན་བ་)
  • 18. The upper part of his body is like that of a lion. (Tib. རོ་སྟོད་སེང་གེ་འདྲ་བ་)
  • 19. His head and shoulders are perfectly round. (Tib. དཔུང་འགོ་ཤིན་ཏུ་ཟླུམ་པ་)
  • 20. His shoulders are broad. (Tib. ཐལ་གོང་རྒྱས་པ་)
  • 21. He has an excellent sense of taste. (Tib. རོ་བྲོ་བའི་མཆོག་མཁྱེན་པ་)
  • 22. His body has the proportions of a banyan tree. (Tib. ཤིང་ཉ་གྲོ་རྡ་ལྟར་ཆུ་ཞེང་གབ་པ་)
  • 23. He has a protrusion on the crown of his head. (Tib. དབུ་གཙུག་ཏོར་དང་ལྡན་པ་)
  • 24. His tongue is long. (Tib. ལྗགས་རིང་བ་)
  • 25. His voice mellifluent. (Tib. གསུང་ཚངས་དབྱངས་དང་ལྡན་པ་)
  • 26. His cheeks are like those of a lion. (Tib. འགྲམ་པ་སེང་གེ་འདྲ་བ་)
  • 27. His teeth are white. (Tib. ཚེམས་དཀར་བ་)
  • 28. There are no gaps between his teeth. (Tib. ཚེམས་མཉམ་པ་)
  • 29. His teeth are evenly set. (Tib. ཚེམས་ཐགས་བཟང་བ་)
  • 30. He has a total of forty teeth. (Tib. ཚེམས་བཞི་བཅུ་མངའ་བ་)
  • 31. His eyes are the colour of sapphire. (Tib. སྤྱན་་མཐོན་མཐིང་ཅན་)
  • 32. His eyelashes are like those of a magnificent heifer. (Tib. རྫི་མ་བའི་ལྟ་བུ་) [1]

References

  1. ↑ *Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology, Tsepak Rigdzin, Library of Tibetan Works and Archives. This dictionary is based on The Great Volume of Precise Understanding – Mahavyutpatti, drawn up by Tibetan translators in the ninth century at the instigation of Tibetan dharma-king Tri Ralpachen.

Further Reading

  • Mipham, Gateway to Knowledge, Volume III, pages 239-242
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