酥

Readings

Pinyin: sū

Wade-Giles: su

Hangul: 소

Korean MC: so

Korean MR: so

Katakana: ソ

Hepburn: so

tô

curd

• Butter; crisp. It is described as produced by churning milk or treating it with herbs. Milk produces cream 酪, then freshly curdled butter 生酥, then actual butter 熟酥, then ghee 醍醐. A metaphor used in the Tiantai explanation of the five teaching periods 五時. (Skt. ghṛta, sarpis; Tib. mar khu, mar, zhun mar) 〔瑜伽論 T 1579.30.286a12〕 [resp. cmuller; source(s): Nakamura, Soothill, YBh-Ind]

Dictionary References:

Bulgyo sajeon, 473a

Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura), 860c

Ding Fubao, {Digital Version}

Buddhist Chinese-Sanskrit Dictionary (Hirakawa), 1175

Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki), (v.1-6)3178c

Sanskrit-Tibetan Index for the Yogâcārabhūmi-śāstra (Yokoyama and Hirosawa), {Digital Version}

Soothill, 392

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