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Urn St. Candide
An urn is a vase, often with a cover, with a typically narrowed neck above a rounded body and a footed pedestal. Describing a vessel as an "urn", as opposed to a vase or other terms, generally reflects its use rather than any particular shape or origin. The term is especially often used for funerary urns, vessels used in burials, either to hold the cremated ashes or as grave goods, but is used in many other contexts. Large sculpted vases are often called urns, whether placed outdoors, in gardens or as architectural ornaments on buildings, or kept inside. In catering, large vessels for serving tea or coffee are often called "tea-urns", even when they are metal cylinders of purely functional design. Urns are also a Urn problem, common reference in thought experiments in probability wherein marbles or balls of different colors are used to represent different results and the urn represents the "container" of the whole set of possible states. Funerary Funerary urns (also called cin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urna Cineraria In Alabastro Da Abbazia Delle Tre Fontane (via Laurentina), 0-50 Dc Ca
In Buddhist art and culture, the Urna (more correctly ūrṇā or ūrṇākośa (Pāli uṇṇa), and known as in Chinese language, Chinese) is a spiral or Bindi (decoration), circular dot placed on the forehead of Buddhist images as an auspicious mark. It symbolizes a third eye, which in turn symbolizes vision into the divine world; a sort of ability to see past our mundane universe of suffering. As set out in the ''Lakkhana Sutta'' or 'Discourse on Marks', the ūrṇā is the thirty-first physical characteristics of the Buddha, physical characteristic of Buddha. It is generally thought to be a whorl of hair and be a mark or sign of the Gautama Buddha, Buddha as a mahāpuruṣa or great being. The device is often seen on sculptures from the 2nd century CE. Gallery File:Buddha Victoria & Albert.jpg, Buddha with urna depicted as a circular dot File:Khmer Sacred Symbol, Om or Unalom.png, The unalome () yantra is a stylised representation of the urna. See also * Bindi (decoratio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
