THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

དྲག་ཤུལ་
Transliteration: drag shul
<noun> 1) "Fierce(ness)", "savage(ness)" meaning the style of expression that results when body and speech are showing the force of anger. 2) "Savage". One of the ཉམས་དགུ་ nine moods of wrathful and semi-wrathful deities q.v. 3) [Old] Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, མི་སྡུག་པ་ "unpleasant", "not nice". This usage is seen in writings throughout the centuries where it means "savage", "uncultured", "not refined" as opposed to "cultured", "nice", "refined". E.g., it is used this way in [NSN].