གཤེན

Tibetan edit

Etymology edit

Has been linked to ཤེས (shes, “to know, understand”) with a nominalizing circumfix; compare གཉེན (gnyen, “friend, relative”) and ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near, dear”).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

Old Tibetan: /*kɕen/
Lhasa: /ɕẽ˥˥/

Old Tibetan:
- IPA^(key): /*kɕen/ (reconstructed)
Ü-Tsang
- Tibetan pinyin: xen^f
- (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ɕẽ˥˥/

Noun edit

གཤེན • (gshen)

the clan of the founder of Bon
(Bon) shaman, priest
Synonym: བོན་པོ (bon po)

References edit

“གཤེན” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
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^ Guillaume Jacques (2019 July 19) “Tibétain gɕen”, in Panchronica‎^[1] (in French), Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC

[1] Guillaume Jacques (2019 July 19) “Tibétain gɕen”, in Panchronica‎^[1] (in French), Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC

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