རྒྱང་འཕེན་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

Literally ‘that hurl afar’, as atheists ‘hurl afar’ their concern for past and future lives.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*rɡʲaŋ.ᵐpʰen.pa/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*rɡʲaŋ.ᵐpʰen.pa/ (reconstructed)

Noun

རྒྱང་འཕེན་པ • (rgyang 'phen pa)

1. charvaka (a follower of the Charvaka school); materialist; hedonist; nihilist
2. atheist (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

References

• “རྒྱང་འཕེན་པ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.