Transliteration: bra ti dge bshes
<noun> "Drati Geshe". The name usually given to བྲ་ཏི་དགེ་བཤེས་རིན་ཆེན་དོན་གྲུབ་ "Drati geshe rinchen dondrub". Name of a great Tibetan grammarian of the 17th-18th century. These days the three great Tibetan grammarians of the past are spoken of in the formulation ཞྭ་རྣམ་བྲ་གསུམ་ "the three—Zhva, Nam, and Dra". He is the third of the three, the others being ཞྭ་ལུ་ལོཙྪ་བ་ཆོས་སྐྱོང་བཟང་པོ་ Zhvalu Lotsawa and རྣམ་གླིང་པཎ་ཆེན་ Namling Panchen. His two main works on grammar taken together are called བྲ་ཏི་སུམ་རྟགས་ "The Thirty and Gender Signs of Drati" q.v.
