The name of urna come upon seeking a name for this blog. I ‘m thinking to look at the life with love and wisdom. So, I try a much easier to remember term called thirdeye.wordpress.com, but it was taken. So I used some Buddhist term called Urna. Urna is a concave circular dot - manifested on the forehead between the eyebrows.
It is often found on the 2nd and 3rd Century sculptures of the Buddha and Bodhisattvas. Sometimes it is represented with a jewel.
Urna is the 31st physical characteristic of Buddha. It symbolizes and radiates wisdom. It is also a symbol for a third eye, which represents the power to emit a beam of light and illuminate the world.
My blogging topics will be on Buddhism, global warming, climate change, water scarcity, debt based monetory system, etc.
I hope this blog could be like urna, to radiate wisdom and love to the world.
With Metta, Quah YC (Ji Yan)
21taras said,
January 26, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Deep Bows to you for this beautiful blog and for your holy intentions.
OM
sarah.
Quah Yow Chun (Ji Yan) said,
January 27, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Thanks for your compliment. We need everyone love and effort to make this world a perfect one.
Sandra said,
June 29, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Hello, my very gentle, musically/artistically/academically-gifted, and well-behaved 16-year-old son has a urna. He has a whorl on his forehead. Facing him, the observer sees it as a clockwise spiral.
He also has a double crown, 2 whorls, at the top-rear of his head of hair. His right one is clockwise and his left one counterclockwise.
What would this mean, if anything??? He’s had these since birth (plus a cowlick on the frontal line between his hair an forehead). Of course, he only let’s me cut his hair.
quah said,
July 25, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Sandra,
The Buddha heart is in everybody mind, just covered by the dirt and everyone need to purify the heart. Your kids is perfectly normal to have a whorl on his forehead, this doesn’t mean anything.