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Images Bats Bat (fu) Homophone for good fortune and symbol for longevity and happiness. [3] Bats flying amongst clouds Bats with Chinese character "wan"(Swastika) "Ten thousand-fold wishes for good fortune and happiness.” [3] Five bats (wufu) Wishes for the Five Blessings. [3] Red bats (hongfu) Wide spread of good fortune [3] Deer Lü [4 ...
Blue (Pāli and Sanskrit: nīla): The Spirit of Universal Compassion; Yellow (Pāli and Sanskrit: pīta): The Middle Way; Red (Pāli and Sanskrit: lohitaka): The Blessings of Practice – achievement, wisdom, virtue, fortune and dignity; White (Pali: odāta; Sanskrit: avadāta): The Purity of Dhamma – leading to liberation, timeless
Where gold is used as a background in miniatures, mosaics and panel paintings, the halo is often formed by inscribing lines in the gold leaf, and may be decorated in patterns within the outer radius, and thus becomes much less prominent. The gold leaf inside the halo may also be burnished in a circular manner, so as to produce the effect of ...
Lung ta prayer flags hang along a mountain path in Nepal. Close-up of a Lung ta ("Wind Horse") prayer flag, Ladakh, India A Tibetan prayer flag is a colorful rectangular cloth, often found strung along trails and peaks high in the Himalayas.
The image of the Divine Mercy is a depiction of Jesus Christ that is based on the Divine Mercy devotion initiated by Faustina Kowalska.. According to Kowalska's diary, Jesus told her "I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish.
The earliest Buddhist art is from the Mauryan era (322 BCE – 184 BCE), there is little archeological evidence for pre-Mauryan period symbolism. [6] Early Buddhist art (circa 2nd century BCE to 2nd century CE) is commonly (but not exclusively) aniconic (i.e. lacking an anthropomorphic image), and instead used various symbols to depict the Buddha.
The Roof Decoration of Sanxing. At Magong Beiji Temple, Taiwan. The star of Fu (福), or Fuxing (Chinese: 福星; pinyin: fúxīng; lit. 'Star of fortune'), corresponds to the planet Jupiter.
The phurba (Tibetan: ཕུར་པ or ཕུར་བ, Wylie: phur pa or phur ba; alternate transliterations: phurpa, phurbu, purbha, or phurpu) [needs IPA] or kīla (Sanskrit Devanagari: कील; IAST: kīla) is a three-sided peg, stake, knife, or nail-like ritual implement deeply rooted in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and Bön traditions.