Scholarly Name Reference
also written Bhaisajyaguru
'Medicine master' (bhaiṣajya 'healing, remedy' + guru 'teacher'), the Medicine Buddha of lapis-lazuli radiance who vows to cure the sick.
Scholarly reference for Bhaiṣajyaguru
भैषज्यगुरु
The name in its original Devanagari form. भैषज्यगुरु → Bhaiṣajyaguru. Sanskrit Bhaiṣajyaguru is written in Devanagari as भैषज्यगुरु · IAST transliteration maps each Devanagari vowel and consonant to a Latin equivalent · Macrons mark long vowels (ā, ī, ū); dots beneath consonants mark retroflex articulation (ṭ, ḍ, ṇ, ṣ)
BHAISAJYAGURU
Stripped of its identity, the name was reduced to plain Latin letters. The original orthography — stress, length, breathing — was erased by systems that only understand A-Z.
Bhaiṣajyaguru
The Unicode restoration recovers what ASCII destroyed. This is philological accuracy — not decoration. The domain encodes to Punycode, but the browser displays the truth.
bhaiṣajyaguru.com → xn--bhaiajyaguru-6g5f.com
The non-ASCII characters in Bhaiṣajyaguru are encoded while the ASCII remains visible. To the DNS, it is Punycode. To humanity, it is Bhaiṣajyaguru. PUNICODEX does not claim this domain is available; always verify status with a registrar.
How bhaisajyaguru becomes Bhaiṣajyaguru
| Step | ASCII | Unicode | Type | Scholarly Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | b | → | B | Same | Same, capitalized |
| 02 | h | → | h | Same | Same |
| 03 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 04 | i | → | i | Same | Same |
| 05 | s | → | ṣ | Special | Ṣ: retroflex sibilant, underdot (IAST ṣ) |
| 06 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 07 | j | → | j | Same | Same |
| 08 | y | → | y | Same | Same |
| 09 | a | → | a | Same | Same |
| 10 | g | → | g | Same | Same |
| 11 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
| 12 | r | → | r | Same | Same |
| 13 | u | → | u | Same | Same |
Why Bhaiṣajyaguru is classified as Tier-1
The Buddhist restoration भैषज्यगुरु preserves at least one distinctive feature its ASCII form loses — a diacritic or a distinctive letter that marks the original phonology. This makes it a single-tier Tier-1 name.
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