གཤེན

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Tibetan

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Etymology

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Has been linked to ཤེས (shes, to know, understand) with a nominalizing circumfix; compare གཉེན (gnyen, friend, relative) and ཉེ་བ (nye ba, near, dear).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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གཤེན (gshen)

  1. the clan of the founder of Bon
  2. (Bon) shaman, priest
    Synonym: བོན་པོ (bon po)

References

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  1. ^ Guillaume Jacques (2019 July 19) “Tibétain gɕen”, in Panchronica[1] (in French), Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC