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rab byung bcu bdun pa'i ming 'dogs kyi bsam 'char mdo tsam zhus pa
| Author Analytic | tshe tan zhabs drung |
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| Title Analytic | rab byung bcu bdun pa'i ming 'dogs kyi bsam 'char mdo tsam zhus pa |
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| Journal Title | zla zer |
| Translated Title | Thoughts on designating the seventeenth Tibetan calendar cycle |
| Date | 1984 |
| Volume | |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-4 |
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| Availability | Latse |
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| Notes | skabs 'dir rtsom pa po bod ljongs sman rtsis khang gi mtshan 'dzin hu'e krang yin/ |
| Abstract | lo skor bcu gnyis kyi srog chags kyi ming sbyar nas lo rgan drug cu rtsi tshul 'di rim gyis dar spel byas pa ma gtogs/ dus 'khor bod la byung ba'i lo de ga nas khyab spel du btang ba zhig min zhes/ bu ston dang rje rin po che'i brtsams chos dper brjod/ de nas rab byung bcu gcig pa la rab drag ces btags pa rtsis rig gong 'phel byung ba mtshon zhing/ da yang lo gsum gyi rjes su rab byung 17 la slebs nye bas/ de'i ming la dge sbyong gi rgyan bcu bdun zhes pa sbyar nas rab rgyan zhes btags na 'os par dpyad/ The author states that the system of assigning animal names to each year in a 12-year cycle and the system of a sixty-year Tibetan calendar cycle (rab byung) developed gradually in Tibet, not as a result of Kalachakra entering Tibet during the same year. The author uses the works [colophons] of Bu ston and Tsongkhapa to illustrate his point. During the 600 years that transpired from the first cycle (rab byung) to the 11th (rab byung), the rab byung system was not actually in place. Nor was there any traditio |
| Keywords | skar rtsis rig pa/rab byung bcu bdun/rab rgyan |