དབུས་འགྱུར་འཆང

Tibetan

Etymology

དབུས (dbus, “center”) +‎ འགྱུར ('gyur, “become”) +‎ འཆང ('chang, “hold, bear”); can be interpreted as “holding that which became the center”. Calque of Sanskrit मगध (magadha), from मध्य (madhya, “middle”) + गति (gati, “becoming”), according to one theory.[1]

Pronunciation
  • Old Tibetan:
    • IPA(key): /*dbus.ᵑɡʲur.ⁿt͡ɕʰaŋ/ (reconstructed)

Proper noun

དབུས་འགྱུར་འཆང • (dbus 'gyur 'chang)

  1. (geography) Bodh Gaya, a religious site in the former Magadha Kingdom, now part of Bihar, India

References
  1. Huber, T. (2008). The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India. Germany: University of Chicago Press, p. 79
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