Phupphusa: 17 definitions
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Phupphusa means something in Buddhism, Pali, Hinduism, Sanskrit, Marathi, Hindi. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.
In Hinduism
Ayurveda (science of life)
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस, “lung”):—On the left inferior aspect of the heart, Plīhā (‘spleen’) is situated and on its left side there is Phupphusa (‘left lung’). On right side, the corresponding organs situated are Yakṛt (‘liver’) and Kloma (‘right lung’) respectively (Suśruta-saṃhitā Śārirasthāna 4/31). Suśruta has used two different terms to mean left and right lungs—‘Phupphusa’ for left lung and ‘Kloma’ for right lung. This conclusion is drawn because of the fact that the term ‘Phupphusa’ has not been used in its plural form.
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस) refers to the “lungs” and represents one of the items held in the right hand of Heruka: one of the main deities of the Herukamaṇḍala described in the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Heruka is positioned in the Lotus (padma) at the center; He is the origin of all heroes; He has 17 faces (with three eyes on each) and 76 arms [holding, for example, phupphusa]; He is half black and half green in color; He is dancing on a flaming sun placed on Bhairava and Kālarātrī.
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस) or “lung” is associated with Vāyuvegā and Mahāvīra, according to the Cakrasaṃvara-maṇḍala or Saṃvaramaṇḍala of Abhayākaragupta’s Niṣpannayogāvalī, p. 45 and n. 145; (Cf. Cakrasaṃvaratantra, Gray, David B., 2007).—The Cakrasaṃvara mandala has a total of sixty-two deities. [...] Three concentric circles going outward, the body, speech and mind wheels (kāya-vāka-citta), in the order: mind (blue), speech (red), and body (white), with eight Ḍākinīs each in non-dual union with their Ḍākas, "male consorts".
Associated elements of Vāyuvegā and Mahāvīra:
Circle: vākacakra [=vākcakra?] (speech-wheel) (red);
Ḍākinī (female consort): Vāyuvegā;
Ḍāka (male consort): Mahāvīra;
Bīja: triṃ;
Body-part: navel;
Pīṭha: Triśakuni;
Bodily constituent: phupphusa (lungs);
Bodhipakṣa (wings of enlightenment): vīryabala (power of effort).
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
Mahayana (major branch of Buddhism)
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस) refers to the “lungs”, which is to be meditated upon in the Aśubhabhāvanā or “reflections on the repulsive” (e.g., “the examination of the body as having the nature of a collection of faeces, etc.”), according to the Tattvaratnāvalī (“a jewel garland of true reality”)—the title of one of the 26 texts revolving around the theme of amanasikāra (“non-conceptual realization”) ascribed to Maitrīpa (c. 986–1063)—an influential late Indian Buddhist master who helped bring Mahāsiddha-style Mahāmudrā teachings into a monastic Mahāyāna scholastic setting.—Accordingly, [while describing the “inferior (mṛdu)” philosophy of Śrāvakayāna]: Persons carrying a load exist. I neither call them permanent, nor do I call them impermanent. Persons with attachment wander [in saṃsāra]. Therefore, in order to abandon attachment, the meditation is the cultivation of the repulsive. This cultivation of the repulsive is the examination of the body as having the nature of a collection of faeces, urine, semen, blood, phlegm, mucus, intestines, joints, lungs (phupphusa), sticky matter from the eyes, kidneys, spleen, liver and so forth. This is stated (in Bodhicaryāvatāra V.62-63)”.
Note: Some sources mentions the word Klomaka in the list which can also translate to the “lungs”.
Mahayana (महायान, mahāyāna) is a major branch of Buddhism focusing on the path of a Bodhisattva (spiritual aspirants/ enlightened beings). Extant literature is vast and primarely composed in the Sanskrit language. There are many sūtras of which some of the earliest are the various Prajñāpāramitā sūtras.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
phupphusa (फुप्फुस).—m S pop. phuphūsa m The lungs.
phupphusa (फुप्फुस).—m phuphūsa m The lungs.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
Sanskrit dictionary
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस).—The lungs.
Derivable forms: phupphusaḥ (फुप्फुसः), phupphusam (फुप्फुसम्).
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस).—(1) m. (recorded only in meaning lungs), app. some sort of instrument, used by monks: °saḥ Mahāvyutpatti 9446 = Tibetan snod rñeṅ (sñeṅ) khyer ba (obscure to me; possibly an instrument for stretching some abdominal organ, as the bladder? snod, vessel, is used in cpds. of abdominal organs, Jäschke (Tibetan-English Dictionary) s.v. 2); Chin. also obscure; lit. love instrument (!); (2) nt. Mūla-Sarvāstivāda-Vinaya ii.159.5 °sam, 160.1 °sa-cīvareṇa, applied to a monk's robe; Tibetan deṅs pas, old, stale, worn ([Tibetan-English Dictionary]).
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस).—m.
(-saḥ) The lungs see pupphusa .
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस).—see pupphusa.
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस):—[from phupphu] m. ([Suśruta]) ([Śārṅgadhara-saṃhitā]) the lungs.
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस):—(saḥ) 1. m. The lungs.
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस):—m. Lunge [Suśruta 1, 328, 13. 329, 6. 337, 11. 2, 18, 7.] n.: udānavāyorādhāraḥ phuphusaṃ (sic) procyate [Śārṅgadhara SAṂH. 1, 5, 21.] — Vgl. pupphusa .
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस):—m. und phuphusa (1) n. Lunge.
Phupphuṣa (in Sanskrit) can be associated with the following Chinese terms:
1) 肺 [fèi]: “lung(s)”..
Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.
Hindi dictionary
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस):—(nm) a lung.
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Nepali dictionary
Phupphusa (फुप्फुस):—n. lungs;
Nepali is the primary language of the Nepalese people counting almost 20 million native speakers. The country of Nepal is situated in the Himalaya mountain range to the north of India.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Full-text (+0): Pupphusa, Pushpasa, Avahanana, Phopisa, Phupfus, Pusphusa, Puppucam, Vataphullantra, Kloman, Puppucatapanam, Phushphasa, Trim, Trishakuni, Viryabala, Vayuvega, Mahavira, Klomaka, Fei, Heruka.
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