མཆོད་རྟེན

Sikkimese

Etymology

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Noun

མཆོད་རྟེན (mchod rten)

(Buddhism) stupa

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

མཆོད (mchod, “to offer; to worship”) +‎ རྟེན (rten, “seat; temple”).

Pronunciation

Old Tibetan: /*mt͡ɕʰot.rten/
Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.tẽ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*mt͡ɕʰot.rten/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: qoe^f-den^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰøː˥˥.tẽ˥˥/

Noun

མཆོད་རྟེན • (mchod rten)

(Buddhism) stupa

Descendants

→ English: chorten