ཚངས་པའི་བུ་ག་
Transliteration: tshangs pa'i bu ga
<noun> "The aperture of Brahma". Translation of the Sanskrit "brahmārandra". The point at the top of the head marked by the centre of the hair swirl. E.g., ཚངས་བུག་དབྱེ། "open the brahma aperture".
The aperture of Brahma is one of རྣམ་ཤེས་འཕོ་བའི་བུ་ག་དགུ་ the nine orifices of the human body via which the consciousness exits at the time of death. The consciousness can eject through this hole…
རྣམ་ཤེས་འཕོ་བའི་བུ་ག་དགུ་
Transliteration: rnam shes 'pho ba'i bu ga dgu
<enum> "The nine apertures of consciousnesses transference". The consciousness of an ordinary being is said to exit at the time of death from the human body in one of nine places. [DGT] [JKE] give as: 1) ཚངས་བུག་ "aperture of brahma"; 2) སྨིན་མཚམས་ "point between the eyebrows"; 3) མིག་ "eyes"; 4) རྣ་བ་ "ears"; 5) སྣ་ "nose"; 6) ཁ་ "mouth"; 7) ལྟེ་བ་ "navel"; 8) ཆུ་ལམ་ "aperture of the ureth…
ཚངས་པ་
Transliteration: tshangs pa
I. <noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "brahmā" which is the name of the great god "Brahmā".
1) Brahmā is one of the ལྷ་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་ eight great gods and ལྷ་བཞི་ four gods and ལྷའི་གཙོ་བོ་གསུམ་ three principal gods. Note that where Hindu and other Indian spiritual traditions see Brahmā as a universal and omnipotent principle that pervades all existence, the Buddhists see Brahmā as a god in a hi…
