THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

སྨེ་བ་སྐོར་དགུ་
Transliteration: sme ba skor dgu
<noun> Meaning ནག་རྩིས་ཀྱི་སྨེ་བ་སྐོར་དགུ་, a set of nine astrological diagrams. [SCD] gives: the nine astrological diagrams or figures in geomancy of the Tibetans used in imitation of Chinese astrology; out of these, three or the 1st, the 6th and the 8th are white being symbolical of the element of iron; the black and blue i.e., the 2nd and the 3rd diagrams represent the element of water; while the fourth which is blue represents wood and the fifth figure being yellow represents the element of earth; 7th and 9th representing the element of fire.