urna

Commonly represented as a dot, coil or tuft of hair on the forehead between the eyebrows, small round indentation or set with a gem, the urna is one of the auspicious identifying marks of a Buddha that symbolizes a third eye, which symbolizes vision into the divine world and the ability to see past the mundane universe of suffering. Images of the Bodhisattva Guanyin sometimes have an urna inset with cut glass.