Dzekshim

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Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
ཛྷཻ ཀྵི ཾ ། ཟི་ ཁྱིམ ། ཟངས་ དམར །
Wylie transliteration :
dz + haik + ShiM, zi khyim, zangs dmar
Other spellings:
dzhai kṣiṃ, dsai kṣiṃ, dzñē-kṣiṃ;
ji k'yim, ji-khyim
Chinese name
Traditional :
赤金
Pinyin :
chìjīn

Dzekshim ( IAST : jhaikṣiṃ ) is the Tibetan name for a special alloy that consists of seven or more metals and was used to cast statues, bells and valuable ritual objects. For the Tibetans , this alloy is one of the most precious materials, as it can only be produced by experienced foundries due to the different boiling points of the metals used during melting. Components are always gold , silver , copper and other metals. The proportion of the individual metals creates the special color. Since Dzekshim statues are so valued, they are never gilded. A distinction is made between a naturally obtained, pure copper very similar looking Dzekshim and a Dzekshim produced by the fusion of different metals.

According to Giuseppe Tucci , the Tibetan name is a loan word from Chinese (Middle Chinese: * tsyhek kim ).

literature

  • LS Dagyab: Tibetan Religious Art . 2 parts. Wiesbaden 1977.
  • WA Oddy & W. Zwalf (Mr.): Aspects of Tibetan Metallurgy . London 1981.
  • Krang dbyi sun ua (Mr.): Bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo . Lhasa 1985.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Transliteration according to Turrell Wylie: A Standard System of Tibetan Transcription . In: Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 22: 261-267 (December 1959), there was no convention for the transcription of the Tibetan letters used in Sanskrit words. This is the transcription according to the THDL Extended Wylie Tibetan System .
  2. Erberto Lo Bue: Statuary Metals in Tibet and the Himālayas: History, Tradition and Modern Use . In: Bulletin of Tibetology 1-3: 7-41 (1991), here pp. 11, 16.
  3. LS Dagyab: Tibetan Religious Art . 2 parts. Wiesbaden 1977.
  4. ^ Giuseppe Tucci: A Tibetan Classification of Buddhist Images According to Their Style . In: Artibus Asiae 22: 179–187 (1959), here p. 180 fn. 2.
  5. ^ William H. Baxter: An Etymological Dictionary of Common Chinese Characters .