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The Dharmachakra or "Wheel of the Law" (Sanskrit; Tibetan: ཆོས་ཀྱི་འཁོར་ལོ་, THL: chö kyi khorlo) represents Gautama Buddha and the Dharma teaching. This symbol is commonly used by Tibetan Buddhists, where it sometimes also includes an inner wheel of the Gankyil (Tibetan).
Tibetan numerals is the numeral system of the Tibetan script and a variety of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system. It is used in the Tibetan language [1] [2] and has a base-10 counting system. [3] The Mongolian numerals were also developed from the Tibetan numerals. [4] [5]
Astragalomancy, also known as cubomancy [1] or astragyromancy, is a form of divination that uses dice specially marked with letters or numbers. Historically, as with dice games , the "dice" were usually knucklebones or other small bones of quadrupeds.
The term arithmancy is derived from two Greek words – arithmos (meaning number) and manteia (meaning divination). "Αριθμομαντεία" Arithmancy is thus the study of divination through numbers. [3] Although the word "arithmancy" dates to the 1570s, [4] the word "numerology" is not recorded in English before c. 1907. [5]
In short, numerology is a system where numbers and letters have symbolic or mystical meanings. There are many different schools of numerology, such as the Pythagorean system and Chaldean method.
Tibetan astrology (Tibetan: དཀར་རྩིས, Wylie: dkar rtsis) is a traditional discipline of the Tibetan peoples that has influence from both Chinese astrology and Hindu astrology. Tibetan astrology is one of the 'Ten Sciences' (Wylie: rig-pa'i gnas bcu; Sanskrit: daśavidyā) in the enumeration honoured by this cultural tradition.
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'Tibetan Silver' includes copper-tin, and copper-nickel alloys; zinc alloys; and other alloy compositions, as well as base metals such as iron plated with a silver alloy. An X-ray fluorescence analysis showed that six of seven items acquired online and described as 'Tibetan silver' were alloys containing primarily copper, nickel, zinc. [3]