དགེ་བ
See also: དགྲ་བོ
Sikkimese
Etymology
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Noun
དགེ་བ (dge ba)
- (Tibetan Buddhism) A supervisor or director of the other monks in a monastery.
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 39
Tibetan
Noun
དགེ་བ • (dge ba)