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སྐྱེས་ཐོབ་
Transliteration: skyes thob
<phrase> Same meaning as སྐྱེས་སྟོབས་ q.v. for explanation and meaning སྐྱེས་པས་ཐོབ་པ་. It could be translated "acquired by birth" but it has more the sense of "by birth" e.g., སྐྱེས་ཐོབ་ཀྱི་དགེ་བ་ a person who, by birth, is naturally a virtuous type of person and སྐྱེས་ཐོབ་ཀྱི་མི་དགེ་བ་ a person who is naturally non-virtuous, and སྐྱེས་ཐོབ་ཀྱི་མུ་སྟེགས་པ་ a person who is a Tīrthika by birt…