毫ごう光こう

noun

light from the tuft of white hair between Buddha's eyebrows

Abbreviation of 白毫相光. A specific Buddhist term for the ray of light emitted from the urna (白毫) on the Buddha's forehead. Rare, mainly encountered in sutras or religious texts.

• 経きょう典てんには、仏ほとけの毫ごう光こうが三さん千ぜん大だい千せん世せ界かいを照てらすと説とかれている。

  The sutras teach that the Buddha's ray of light illuminates the entire universe.