Transliteration: dbo zla ba
<noun> The name of the fourth of ཟླ་བ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ twelve months. 1) In common Tibetan dating it is said to be the second ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month. 2) In Buddhism, in the original system for determining the month, which is the ancient Indian system defined in the འདུལ་བ་ལུང་ Vinaya sūtra, it is the month during which the star / constellation དབོ་ rises with the full moon. (That star / constellation is one of the རྒྱུ་སྐར་ཉི་ཤུ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་ twenty-eight stars / constellations of the lunar zodiac q.v.) [TC] says that in this dating system the month starts on the 16th day of the first ཧོར་ཟླ་ Mongolian month and goes to the 15th day of the second Mongolian month. However, the calculations of the months in the Vinaya system are a little different from the Mongolian month system so the actual correspondence can vary from month to month.
