བྱ་གཏོར

Tibetan

Etymology

བྱ (bya, “bird”) +‎ གཏོར (gtor, “scatter, dispose, destroy”)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*bʲa.ktor/
• Lhasa: /t͡ɕʰa˩˨.toː(ɹ)˥˨/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*bʲa.ktor/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: qa^v-dor^h
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /t͡ɕʰa˩˨.toː(ɹ)˥˨/

Noun

བྱ་གཏོར • (bya gtor)

1. sky burial, the traditional Tibetan funeral practice of excarnation

See also

• རིར་སྐྱེལ (rir skyel)