སྤྲུལ་སྐུ
Appearance
Tibetan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]སྤྲུལ (sprul, “to juggle, to make phantoms appear, to change, to transform”) + སྐུ (sku, “body; the person of Buddha; image, statue of Buddha”). Short for སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ (sprul pa'i sku) or སྤྲུལ་པ་སྐུ (sprul pa sku).
Equivalent to Sanskrit निर्माणकाय (nirmāṇakāya), Chinese 應身, 化身, Mongolian хувилгаан (xuvilgaan).
Pronunciation
[edit]- Old Tibetan: /*sprul.sku/
- Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.ku˥˥/
- Old Tibetan:
- Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: zhuef-guf
- (Lhasa) IPA(key): /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.ku˥˥/
Noun
[edit]སྤྲུལ་སྐུ • (sprul sku)
- Tulku (a concept in Tibetan Buddhism); "emanation body", reincarnation