འགོང་པོ

Tibetan

Etymology

འགོང ('gong, “bewitch”) +‎ པོ (po)

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*ᵑɡoŋ.po/
• Lhasa: /koŋ˩˨.poˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*ᵑɡoŋ.po/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: gong^v-bo
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /koŋ˩˨.poˑ/

Noun

འགོང་པོ • ('gong po)

1. (Buddhism) a class of demon or evil spirit, believed to be involved in illness
2. enchanter, sorcerer

References

• “འགོང་པོ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.