Glossary
Types of attestation for names and terms of the corresponding source language
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g.1
honorable one
Wylie: btsun pa
Tibetan: བཙུན་པ།
Sanskrit: bhadanta
An honorific term for an ordained person.
g.2
novice monk
Wylie: dge tshul
Tibetan: དགེ་ཚུལ།
Sanskrit: śrāmaṇera
g.3
preceptor
Wylie: mkhan po
Tibetan: མཁན་པོ།
Sanskrit: upādhyāya
An abbot or a principal ordination master.
g.4
protocol
Wylie: kun tu spyod pa
Tibetan: ཀུན་ཏུ་སྤྱོད་པ།
Sanskrit: ācāra
g.5
ringing staff
Wylie: khar gsil
Tibetan: ཁར་གསིལ།
Sanskrit: khakkhara
g.6
rite
Wylie: cho ga
Tibetan: ཆོ་ག
Sanskrit: vidhi
g.7
teacher
Wylie: slob dpon
Tibetan: སློབ་དཔོན།
Sanskrit: ācārya
A spiritual teacher.
g.8
Venerable one
Wylie: tshe dang ldan pa
Tibetan: ཚེ་དང་ལྡན་པ།
Sanskrit: āyuṣmat
An honorific title, literally meaning “life possessing,” that is applied especially to royal personages and Buddhist monks.