Images of monks with the Uṣṇīṣa - from the Kucha and Turfan Regions
According to the scriptures, Śākyamuni is supposed to have been born with thirty-two mahāpuruṣa lakṣaṇas (characteristics/body-marks of the Great Person) and eighty anuvyañjana (minor marks). The uṣṇīṣa, “the protrusion on top of the head,” is one of the thirty-two mahāpuruṣa lakṣaṇas. In standard B...
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Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
2015
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Art of the Orient
Year: 2015, Volume: 4, Pages: 9-43 |
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