Provenance Figures

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Provenance Figures

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This is a list of the types of people involved in the creation of a text, such as author, translator, redactor, in both English and Tibetan. This list may be helpful in translating colophons among other things. The Tibetan translations were provided by Zenkar Rinpoche.

Audience: འཁོར་ or ཉན་​​པ་​​པོ་ or ཉན་​​མཁན་
Author: མཛད་​​པ་​​པོ་ or མཛད་​​མཁན་ or ​རྩོམ་​​པ་​​པོ་ or རྩོམ་​​མཁན་
Compiler/Redactor: སྡུད་​​པ་​​པོ་ or སྡུད་​​མཁན་
Concealer: གཏེར་​​སྦེད་​​མཁན་
Doctrine Holder: ཆོས་​​བདག་
Editor: དཔེ་​​སྒྲིག་​​མཁན་
Editor: སྒྲིག་​​མཁན་ or སྒྲིག་​​པ་​​པོ་
Printer: པར་​​འདེབས་​​ཁང་ or པར་​​འདེབས་​​མཁན་
Proof-reader: ཞུས་​​དག་​​མཁན་ or ཞུས་​​དག་​​པ་ (comparing two manuscripts and deciding which is correct) ཞུས་​​ཆེན་ = final last proofreader.
Requester: ཞུ་​​བ་​​པོ་ or ཞུ་​​མཁན་
Revealer: གཏེར་​​སྟོན་
Reviser: འགྱུར་​​བཅོས་​​པ་ or འགྱུར་​​བཅོས་​​མཁན་
Scribe: བྲི་​​བ་​​པོ་ or བྲི་​​མཁན་ or ཡི་གེ་པ་
Speaker: གསུང་​​བ་​​པོ་ or གསུང་​​མཁན་
Sponsor: སྦྱིན་​​བདག་
Translator: འགྱུར་​​པ་​​པོ་ or ལོ་​​ཙཱ་​​བ་

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