[Fictionary] GLIMA results

[fictioneric at cluemail.com]

>>glima - n. - The aureola typically shown surrounding the image of a 
>>bodhisattva in Tibetan art.
>
>Elliott: Just doesn't sound Tibetan, somehow, probably because of 
>the initial cluster.

It's not a Tibetan *word*, it's a Tibetan *thing*.  If I hadn't made 
it up, I mean.

Actually, the word I've heard used for that sort of whole-body halo 
is "mandorla".

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