Zhangzhung (Tibetan: ཞང་ཞུང་, Wylie: zhang zhung) is an extinct Sino-Tibetan language that was spoken in Zhangzhung in what is now western Tibet. It is...
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Zhangzhung (redirect from Zhang zhung culture)
Zhangzhung texts and 11th century bilingual Tibetan documents attest to a Zhang-Zhung language which was related to Kinnauri. The Bonpo claim that the Tibetan writing...
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Brahmavihara (category Articles containing Sanskrit-language text)
21) identifies the importance of this scripture for studies of the Zhang-Zhung language. Before the advent of the Buddha, according to Martin Wiltshire,...
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Marchen script (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
for writing the extinct Zhangzhung language. It was derived from the Tibetan script. As per McKay (2003), Zhang-zhung script has been modelled after Thonmi...
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contexts. "Jangshung", Endangered Languages Project, retrieved 2023-02-01 also known as Jangiam, Jangrami, Thebor and Zhang-Zhung Negi, Harvinder Kumar (2012)...
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Bon (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
early 11th century which is an important source for the study of the Zhang-Zhung language. The main Bon great perfection teachings are found in terma texts...
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Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
him or believed to be his word." The name Shenrab Miwo is in the Zhang-Zhung language, which is a relative of Old Tibetan; while many suggestions have...
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Marchen may also refer to: Marchen script, used for writing the Zhang-Zhung language Marchen (Unicode block) Marchen Maersk, Danish container ship Märchen...
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Bön Kangyur and Tengyur (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
canonical texts were supposedly translated from original texts in the Zhang-Zhung language. The 179 volume Bön Kangyur consists of five sections: Sutra section...
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the Zhang Zhung language. Haarh graduated from college in 1948; throughout his education he had a strong interest and passion for the Tibetan Language and...
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Marchen alphabet, which has been used to write the extinct Zhang-Zhung language of the Zhang-zhung culture of Tibet. In modern Bon usage, Marchen is also...
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List of writing systems (category Lists of languages)
Mandar Mahajani Makasar – Formerly used for Makassar Malayalam Marchen – Zhang-Zhung Meitei Mayek – Meitei Modi – Marathi Multani – Saraiki Nandinagari –...
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Brahmic scripts (category Articles containing Burmese-language text)
the Brahmi script of ancient India and are used by various languages in several language families in South, East and Southeast Asia: Indo-Aryan, Dravidian...
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populated by Byansis, who speak a West Himalayish language (closely related to the Zhang-Zhung language once spoken in West Tibet). The Byansis practise...
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Terma (religion) (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
21) identifies the importance of this scripture for studies of the Zhang-Zhung language: For students of Tibetan culture in general, the mDzod phug is one...
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Tibet (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
remove the influence of the Zhang Zhung by expelling the Zhang's Bön priests from Yarlung. He was assassinated and Zhang Zhung continued its dominance of...
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Ngari Prefecture (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
Temperatures Around the World". Retrieved 2024-10-06. Bellezza, John Vincent: Zhang Zhung. Foundations of Civilization in Tibet. A Historical and Ethnoarchaeological...
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Tshering Dorje (category CS1 Hindi-language sources (hi))
Himalayas, Tibet, and Central Asia. Dorje also did some research on the Zhang Zhung language. He undertook numerous journeys on foot in the Himalayas. Dorje was...
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1912, and largely disappeared by the end of the nineteenth century. "Zhang-zhung". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved...
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Tapihritsa (category Articles containing Classical Tibetan-language text)
of all the masters of the Zhangzhung Whispered Transmission (Wylie: zhang zhung snyan brgyud) lineage, one of the three Bon Dzogchen lineages.[citation...
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Tögal (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
Tradition from Zhang-Zhung: An Introduction to the Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings of the Oral Tradition from Zhang-Zhung Known as the Zhang-zhung snyan-rgyud....
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extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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Gyalrong people (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
瓦寺土司) Quanrong Zhang Zhung Prins, Marielle. 2011. A web of relations: A grammar of rGyalrong Ji omùzú, p. 18. "in search of a language unrecognised"....
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Lake Manasarovar (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
was the centre of the ancient Bon empire of Zhang Zhung and is associated with the holy place of Zhang Zhung Meri deity. As per Tibetan beliefs, the region...
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Purang Town (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
Purang. The Tibetan name of the town (spu hreng) is a corruption of the Zhang-zhung words pu hrang, meaning 'horse head'.[citation needed] Nepalese call...
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Dzogchen (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
Tradition from Zhang-Zhung: An Introduction to the Bonpo Dzogchen Teachings of the Oral Tradition from Zhang-Zhung Known as the Zhang-zhung snyan-rgyud,...
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Lopön Tenzin Namdak (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
Oral Transmission of the Great Perfection in Zhang Zhung, ISBN 9994672053 2010 Masters of the Zhang Zhung Nyengyud, Heritage Publishers, ISBN 8170262682...
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Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
Rinpoche Drenpa Namkha Gods Shenlha Okar Yeshe Walmo Gyalpo spirits Zhang Zhung Meri Institutions Menri Monastery Triten Norbutse Related religions Dongba...
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Mangsong Mangtsen (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
whole of the Tibetan plateau controlling both the 'Aza in the east and Zhang Zhung in the west. But, by 658 China had gained control of both Khotan and...
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History of Dzogchen (category Articles containing Standard Tibetan-language text)
rMe'u', who lived 1038–1096. The Zhang-zhung Aural Lineage (zhang-zhung nyen-gyu). This tradition is based on the Zhang zhung snyan rgyud, which is supposed...
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