དབུས་འགྱུར་འཆང
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Tibetan[edit]
Etymology[edit]
དབུས (dbus, “center”) + འགྱུར ('gyur, “become”) + འཆང ('chang, “hold, bear”); can be interpreted as “holding that which became the center”. Calque of Sanskrit मगध (magadha), from मध्य (madhya, “middle”) + गति (gati, “becoming”), according to one theory.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Old Tibetan: /*dbus.ᵑɡʲur.ⁿt͡ɕʰaŋ/
Proper noun[edit]
དབུས་འགྱུར་འཆང • (dbus 'gyur 'chang)
References[edit]
- “དབུས་འགྱུར་འཆང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- ^ Huber, T. (2008). The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India. Germany: University of Chicago Press, p. 79