གནམ་ལྕགས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་རྒོད་
Transliteration: gnam lcags kyi thog rgod
<phrase> "Meteoric iron (kind of) lightning bolts". The kind of ཐོག་རྒོད་ "bolts of lightning / very strong lightning" that Tibetans believe is the cause behind the appearance of གནམ་ལྕགས་ meteoric iron artefacts. Tibetans consider that these artefacts appear just under the surface of the soil after (not always immediately but some time after) the bolts of lightning.
Note that this term mean…
ཐོག་རྒོད་
Transliteration: thog rgod
<noun> "Powerful lightning", "bolts of lightning", "strong electrical storm". Some translators have called this "wild lightning" but that is not the meaning. In Tibetan, the sense is "very strong lightning" e.g., [TC] glosses as ཐོག་དྲག་པོ་ "strong lightning". The term also does not refer to whether there is a lot of lightning or not; it can refer to a single flash of lightning or many. It …
གནམ་ལྕགས་
Transliteration: gnam lcags
<noun> 1) "Meteoric iron", the metallic substance—principally iron—obtained from meteorites. Also "meteors" and "meteorites" themselves. 2) "Meteoric iron", "meteoric iron artefacts". Tibetans believe that a special type of artefact appears just under the surface of the soil following the appearance of གནམ་ལྕགས་ཀྱི་ཐོག་རྒོད་ exceptionally strong lightning q.v. When dug up, the iron often ap…
