vibhuti
विभूति vibhūtiSacred ash, also called bhasma, smeared on the body in Shaiva practice; associated with the cremation ground and with what remains after the fire of dissolution.
Where this term appears
- Why do Hindus cremate their dead? Essentials
…hat a devotee of Shiva wears on the forehead, the horizontal lines of vibhuti or bhasma , is meant to recall exactly this: that every body, however loved or powerful, ends as a handful of ash, and that what rem…
- The Four Streams of Hinduism Essentials
It is the tripundra , three horizontal lines drawn across the brow in vibhuti , the sacred ash, often with a red point at the centre.
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
The third, the Vibhuti Pada , is on the powers that arise along the way.
- What is Shaivism? Lineages
Bhasma or vibhuti , smeared in three horizontal lines across the brow, the mark called tripundra .
- Who is Shiva? Deities
The ash , vibhūti or bhasma , smeared on the body, and the tiger skin , vyāghracarma , he sits and stands on, are both prescribed in the meditation-verses.
- Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi: The Inner Three Yoga
…combined discipline samyama (3.4), and most of his third chapter, the Vibhuti Pada , describes what samyama, turned on this or that object, can reveal: knowledge of past and future, of the moment of one's death…
- Reading the Tilaka: Forehead Marks Explained Deities
… three-fold mark: three horizontal lines drawn across the forehead in vibhuti , sacred ash, the ash itself a reminder that the body will burn and only the eternal remains.
- Shiva's Emblems: The Trishula and the Damaru Deities
The ash on his skin, vibhuti , is taken from the cremation ground, the place where every life ends, worn deliberately by the god who is unafraid of it.