THE ILLUMINATOR

Tibetan-English
Encyclopaedic Dictionary

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གཟུགས་ངན་
Transliteration: gzugs ngan
<phrase> Any form that is unpleasant to perceive. Often used in reference to a person, hence e.g., "ugly", "unattractive", etc.

གཟུགས་མོ་
Transliteration: gzugs mo
<noun> The name of an animal. [SCD] gives: "a species of antelope said to live on the higher regions of the Himalayan range between 9 to 18 thousand feet above the level of the sea."

ཡིག་གཟུགས་
Transliteration: yig gzugs
<noun> 1) Meaning "lettering style" it is used to refer to the different "typefaces" of Tibetan writing e.g., དབུ་ཅན་, དབུ་མེད་, བམ་ཡིག་, ཧོར་ཡིག་, འཁྱུག་ཡིག་, and so on. It does not refer to ཡིག་རིས་ variations in style of writing a distinct lettering style as did occur in various areas of Tibet but to the distinct lettering styles themselves. 2) In modern times it has also come to mean ty…