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    The urna is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images. It symbolizes a third eye, representing vision into the divine world and an ability to see beyond suffering. In Buddhist art and culture, the urna is considered the thirty-first physical characteristic of Buddha and a sign of a great being. It is depicted as a small circular mark and seen in sculptures from the 2nd century CE onward.

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    The urna is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images. It symbolizes a third eye, representing vision into the divine world and an ability to see beyond suffering. In Buddhist art and culture, the urna is considered the thirty-first physical characteristic of Buddha and a sign of a great being. It is depicted as a small circular mark and seen in sculptures from the 2nd century CE onward.

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    The urna is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images. It symbolizes a third eye, representing vision into the divine world and an ability to see beyond suffering. In Buddhist art and culture, the urna is considered the thirty-first physical characteristic of Buddha and a sign of a great being. It is depicted as a small circular mark and seen in sculptures from the 2nd century CE onward.

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    Urna

    In Buddhist art and culture, the Urna (more correctly ūrṇā or ūrṇākośa[1] (Pāli uṇṇa), and
    known as báiháo ( ⽩毫) in Chinese) is a spiral or circular dot placed on the forehead of
    Buddhist images as an auspicious mark.[1][2] 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.
    Translations of
    Urna

    Sanskrit ऊणा
    (IAST: ūrṇā)

    Pali उ ण
    (uṇṇa)

    Chinese ⽩毫
    (Pinyin: Báiháo)

    Japanese ⽩毫
    (Rōmaji: byakugō)

    Korean 백호
    (RR: baekho)

    Tibetan མཛད་ ས་
    (Wylie: mdzod spu)

    Vietnamese Bạch mao tướng

    Glossary of Buddhism

    As set out in the Lakkhana Sutta or 'Discourse on Marks', the ūrṇā is the thirty-first physical
    characteristic of Buddha.[3] It is generally thought to be a whorl of hair and be a mark or sign
    of the Buddha as a mahāpuruṣa or great being. The device is often seen on sculptures from
    the 2nd century CE.

    Gallery
    Buddha with urna depicted as a circular dot.

    The unalome (อุณาโลม) yantra is a stylised representation of the urna.

    See also

    Bindi (decoration)

    Bindu (symbol)

    Yantra tattooing

    References

    1. "The Lost Buddhas: Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from Qingzhou" (https://web.archive.org/web/2015


    0624115810/http://asianartnewspaper.com/article/lost-buddhas-chinese-buddhist-sculpture-qing
    zhou) . Asian Art. April 14, 2012. Archived from the original (http://www.asianartnewspaper.com/ar
    ticle/lost-buddhas-chinese-buddhist-sculpture-qingzhou) on June 24, 2015. Retrieved April 12,
    2016.

    2. Stratton, Carol (2004). Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand. Serindia Publications. p. 50.
    ISBN 9781932476095.

    3. Holt, John Clifford; Kinnard, Jacob N.; Walters, Jonathan S. (2012). Constituting Communities:
    Theravada Buddhism and the Religious Cultures of South and Southeast Asia. SUNY Press. p. 191.
    ISBN 9780791487051.

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