ཆོས་སྐྱོང

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

ཆོས་སྐྱོང (chos skyong)

  1. (Buddhism) dharmapala

References

  • Norden Tshering; Pema Rinzin Takchungdarpo (2001), ལྙོ་དབྱིན་ ཤན་སྦྱར་གྱི་ ཆིག་མཇོ་ད།། [Lho dbyin shan sbyar gyi chig mjo da., Bhutia-English Dictionary]‎[1] (overall work in English and Sikkimese), Gangtok, Sikkim: Kwality Stores, page 58

Tibetan

Etymology

From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) +‎ སྐྱོང (skyong, “protector; guardian”). Calque of Sanskrit धर्मपाल (dharmapāla), made from धर्म (dharma, “dharma”) + पाला (pālā, “guard, protector, keeper”).

Noun

ཆོས་སྐྱོང • (chos skyong)

  1. (Buddhism) dharmapala

Proper noun

ཆོས་སྐྱོང • (chos skyong)

  1. a male given name
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