白びゃく毫ごう

noun

urna; white hair whorl between Buddha's eyebrows

In Buddhist iconography, a curl of white hair between the eyebrows of the Buddha, often depicted as a jewel or dot on statues. A technical term encountered in descriptions of Buddhist art.

• 仏ぶつ像ぞうの眉み間けんにある白びゃく毫ごうは、智ち慧えを象しょう徴ちょうしている。

  The urna between the eyebrows of a Buddha statue symbolizes wisdom.

• 白びゃく毫ごうは、仏ほとけの三さん十じゅう二に相そうの一ひとつとされる。

  The urna is considered one of the thirty-two marks of a Buddha.