སྤྲུལ་སྐུ

Tibetan

Etymology

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

Noun

སྤྲུལ་སྐུ • (sprul sku)

  1. Tulku (a concept in Tibetan Buddhism); "emanation body", reincarnation
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