びゃくごう
白毫
1. whorl of white hair on the forehead of the Buddha, represented by a white precious stone on statues of Buddha; urna
2. UrnaFor the Mongolian singer see Urna (singer) In Buddhist art and culture, the Urna (more correctly ūrṇā or ūrṇākośa) is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark. It symbolizes a third eye, which in turn symbolizes vision into the divine world; a sort of ability to see past our mundane universe of suffering. As set out in the Lakkhaṇa Sutta or 'Discourse on Marks', the ūrṇā is the thirty-first physical characteristic of Buddha.
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白亳 【びゃくごう】
白亳: Irregular kanji usage.
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