Audio-video Titles Glossary
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Audio-Video Titles Tibetan-English Translation Glossary
| Tibetan | Wylie | English | Chinese | Notes | Submitted By | David OK'd? | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| བུམ་པ། | bum pa | stupa | James Graves | ||||
| ཆོས་རྟེན། | chos rten | stupa | James Graves | ||||
| བཞིས་ཁ། | gzhis kha | manor house | James Graves | ||||
| ཨ་མ་ལགས། | a ma lags | mother | James Graves | ||||
| པཱ་ལགས། | pA lags | father | James Graves | ||||
| དམངས་སྲོལ། | dmangs srol | popular custom(s) | Is there a reason why "folk" customs would be better? | James Graves | |||
| གཙུག་ལག་ཁང་། | gtsug lag khang | main temple | central temple; main shrine hall; central hall of worship? | James Graves | |||
| ལྷ་ཁང་། | lha khang | chapel/temple? | Seems to depend on context, though I know we should choose one translation. If w/in a monastery, seems like "chapel" would be best. If freestanding and rural, is "temple" better? | James Graves | |||
| སྒྲུབ་ཆུ། | sgrub chu | consecrated water | James Graves | yes | |||
| ཕོ་བྲང་། | pho brang | palace | James Graves | ||||
| ཡུལ་ལྗོངས། | yul ljongs | scenery? | James Graves | ||||
| མཁར། | mkhar | castle?/fortress? | James Graves | ||||
| རྫོང་། | rdzong (building) | fortress | James Graves | ||||
| རྫོང་། | rdzong (municipality) | province | district? | James Graves | |||
| ཆང་། | chang | barley beer | It would be nice to keep this as "chang" but I suppose there are plenty of THL users for whom this needs to be rendered in English | James Graves | |||
| ལྷ་མོ། | lha mo | opera | James Graves | ||||
| བྲོ་པ། | bro pa | dancer | James Graves | ||||
| མཆོད་མཇལ་ལ་ཕེཔས། | mchod mjal la pheps | making religious visits | James Graves | yes | |||
| གྲོང་ཚོ། | grong tsho | village | (as opposed to town?) | James Graves | |||
| འཇུ་གྲོང་། | 'ju grong | village? | If needs to be different than grong tsho, should grong tsho be "town"? | James Graves | |||
| གྲོང་ཁྱེར། | grong khyer | city | James Graves | ||||
| སྒྲུབ་ཁང་། | sgrub khang | meditation house | James Graves | yes | |||
| གླིང་སྐོར། | gling skor | outer circumambulation path | path v. route? | James Graves | |||
| གནས། | gnas | sacred site | sacred place? holy___? pilgrimage site? power place? | James Graves | |||
| ཤིང་བཟོ་བ། | shing bzo ba | carpenter | woodworker? | James Graves | |||
| སྐོར་གཞས། | skor gzhas | circle song | James Graves | ||||
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