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Here are some compounds in byang, which I have collected for a talk that I once gave on “Colophons in the Tibetan Textual Tradition.

1.	ming byang (“name tag”)
2.	mtshan byang (honorific, often “title of a work” )
3.	bzhugs byang (“title on the front page,” “table of content,” or “catalogue”
4.	kha/zhal byang (“address,” “a frontage label [consisting of written texts]”), “instruction manuals”
5.	yig byang (“name plate,” “address”)
6.	sgo byang (“inscription over a door”)
7.	them byang (“door-plate,” “catalogue” (= dkar chag)
8.	dur byang (“inscription on gravestone,” “epitaph”)
9.	gter byang (“guide to treasures,” “treasure-index” (but not “treasure colophon”!)
10.	shing byang (“wooden board”)
11.	shog byang (“cards,” “paper folios”)
12.	ras byang (perhaps identical with gdong dar, “[title or volume] tag made of cloth”)
13.	sdom byang (“mnemonic summary” or “synoptic verses”)
14.	thob byang (“records [of teachings] obtained”)
15.	las byang (“manual of [Tantric] activities” (mostly for common objectives)”
16.	bshags byang (perhaps “manual of confession ritual)”
17.	tho byang (= tho yig?) (“list of records”)
18.	zur byang (“addendum,” “supplement,” “margin title”
19.	brjed byang (“memorandum,” “mnemonic commentary)
20.	bskyud byang (“recollective notes”) = brjed byang (Li shi’i gur khang)
21.	mjug byang (“verse of epilogue”)
22.	mdzad/sbyar byang (“author’s colophon,” i.e. literally “composition colophon”)
23.	’gyur byang (“translation colophon”)
24.	dpar/spar/par byang (“printing/print colophon”)
25.	bris byang (“scribe’s/calligrapher’s colophon”), and its homophone
26.	bri byang (“drawing manual”)
27.	phrin byang (“letter”)