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དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་

Transliteration: dpe mdzod khang

<noun> 1) "Library". 2) "Storage room for books" (one that is not a library) for example, the stock room of pecha for sale in a Tibetan monastery would be called this.

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དཔེ་མཛོད་

Transliteration: dpe mdzod

Abbrev. of དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ q.v.

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དཔེ་ཁང་

Transliteration: dpe khang

<noun> 1) Abbrev. of དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ q.v. 2) Abbrev. of དཔེ་ཆ་ཚོང་ཁང་ "book-shop". 3) Abbrev. of དཔེ་སྐྲུན་ཁང་ q.v.

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ཡོངས་སུ་

Transliteration: yongs su

<adv> that gives the sense of overallness. Whereas the adv. phrase ཀུན་ཏུ་ implies that something is totally so, that it is "all that way", this adv. has the sense of inclusion of a large area or of the whole situation all at once; something is "overall", "wholly", "altogether" so.
It is used to give the sense of "national", "universal". E.g., རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ "national library".

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མཛོད་

Transliteration: mdzod

I. <verb> Imp. of v.t. མཛད་པ་ q.v.
II. <noun> "Store". Translation of the Sanskrit "koṣha" meaning "a repository for storing / placing items". 1) The word is freq. suffixed to other words to indicate the kind of repository e.g., དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ "a library"; བང་མཛོད་ "store-house", "granary", etc.; དབྱིག་མཛོད་ "safe", "strong-box", "depository" for valuables. 2) Freq. used in the title of …

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ཁུ་སིམ་པོ་

Transliteration: khu sim po

<adj> This has the two connotations of "quiet" and / or "relatively still / undisturbed / without much agitation". Usually in reference to places. E.g., ས་ཆ་ཁུ་སིམ་པོ་ "a quiet place, without much disturbance happening"; དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་ནང་དུ་ཁུ་སིམ་པོ་དགོས་པ། "there must be quiet in the library" (silence is another word). Also used in reference to people e.g., ཕྲུ་གུ་ཁུ་སིམ་པོ་འདུག། "he is a q…

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མཛོད་ཁང་

Transliteration: mdzod khang

<noun> A "store house", a place for storing goods and or valuables. E.g., མཛོད་ཁང་ནས་ཇ་མར་འདོན་པ། "to get the tea and butter out of the store room".

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