x + བྱང་།

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”)

x + རབས།

Let us collect here some compounds in rabs:

1. ya rabs
2. ma rabs
3. snga rabs
4. phyi rabs
5. rgyal rabs
6. gdan rabs
7. mkhan rabs
8. bla rabs
9. gna' rabs
10. dgon rabs
11. skyes rabs (or skyes pa’i rabs)
12. dus rabs
13. gdung rabs
14. jo rabs

x + ཡིག །

There are several dissyllabic compounds, having yig (in compound for yi ge) as the second member. Because yi ge itself could mean a “letter/syllable/phoneme,” “(printed/written) character/script,” “(correspondence) letter,” “inscribed/written text,” “document/record,” “literature,” so on, these compounds can also belong to various semantic categories. Translations provided here are rather rudimentary.

1. dbyangs yig “vowels” (Bod.rgya)

2. ’dogs yig “subscript” (Bod.rgya)

3. ’phul yig “prescript” (Bod.rgya)

4. bod yig “Tibetan language” (Bod.rgya)

5. mgyogs yig “running/cursive script” (Bod.rgya)

6. rgyug yig “running/cursive script” (Bod.rgya)

7. ’khyug yig “running/cursive script” (Bod.rgya)

8. rgyugs yig “test/examination papers” (Bod.rgya)

9. chad yig “warranty” (Bod.rgya)

10. lam yig “guide-book” (Bod.rgya)

11. drung yig “secretary/clerk” (Bod.rgya)

12. tshags yig “agreement?” (Bod.rgya)

13. ’dzin yig “receipt” (Bod.rgya)

14. bsgrags yig “declaration/Communiqué” (Bod.rgya)

15. ’grems yig “announcement” (Bod.rgya)

16. ma yig “master-copy” (Bod.rgya)

17. bu yig “copy” (Bod.rgya)

18. byang yig “inscription on a tablet” (Bod.rgya)

19. bsdus yig “abbreviation” (Bod.rgya)

20. bka’ yig “decree/ordinance” (Bod.rgya)

21. dkrugs yig “cryptogram?” (Bod.rgya)

22. skad yig “language” (Bod.rgya)

23. bca’ yig “(book of monastic, etc.) rules and regulations” (Bod.rgya)

24. gzhung yig “book of laws” (Bod.rgya)

25. khrims yig “legal/penal code” (Bod.rgya)

26. kha mchu ’dums yig “peace-agreement” (Bod.rgya)

27. chod yig “treaty/pact” (Bod.rgya)

28. sgrigs yig “(book of) rules and regulation” (Bod.rgya)

29. bskur yig “epistle/letter” (Bod.rgya)

30. ’phrin yig “epistle/letter” (Bod.rgya)

31. gtong/btang yig “epistle/letter” (Bod.rgya)

32. zhu yig “application” (Bod.rgya)

33. spring/s yig “epistle” (Bod.rgya)

34. brda yig “code” (Bod.rgya)

35. chings yig “treaty/packt” (Bod.rgya)

36. gan yig “treaty” (Bod.rgya)

37. bskungs yig (Bod.rgya) or skung yig. See q.v. (here on our blog).

38. brgyud yig “record of transmission” (Bod.rgya)

39. gsan yig “record [of teachings] heard/received” (Bod.rgya)

40. thob yig “record [of teachings] obtained” (Bod.rgya)

41. gsang yig “secret texts/documents” (Bod.rgya)

42. khrid yig “instruction manual” (Bod.rgya)

43. nyams yig “record of (spiritual) experiences?” (Bod.rgya)

44. tho yig “list” (Bod.rgya)

45. kha yig “title (of a work)” (Bod.rgya)

46. mo yig “divination literature/manual” (Bod.rgya)

འགྲེལ་པ།

Some Types of Commentaries:

1. don ’grel “commentary on the meaning/sense” (Bod.rgya)

2. tshig ’grel “word-for-word commentary” (Bod.rgya)

3. ’bru ’grel “syllabic commentary” (Bod.rgya)

4. dka’ ’grel “commentary on difficult points” (Bod.rgya)

5. sgrung ’grel “anecdotal commentary” (not in Bod.rgya)

6. rang ’grel “auto-commentary” (Bod.rgya)

7. mchan ’grel “annotated/interlinear commentary” (Bod.rgya)

8. rgya cher ’grel “extensive commentary” (Bod.rgya)

9. bsdus ’grel “synoptic commentary” (Bod.rgya)

10. rnam ’grel “commentary” or “detailed commentary” (Bod.rgya)

11. dgongs ’grel “commentary” or “exposition” (Bod.rgya)

12. gzhung ’grel “commentary on a treatise” (Bod.rgya)

13. yang ’grel “sub-commentary” (Bod.rgya)

14. bka’ ’grel “commentary on the scriptures” (Bod.rgya)

15. rgya ’grel “Indian commentary” (Bod.rgya)

16. bod ’grel “Tibetan commentary” (not found in the Bod.rgya)

17. zhib ’grel “detailed commentary” (Bod.rgya)

18. ming ’grel “commentary on (proper) names?” (Bod.rgya)

x + རྒྱུན།

Here are some compounds in rgyun, which are lexically significant:

1.	dpe rgyun “textual continuity/transmission”
2.	lung rgyun “reading continuity/transmission”
3.	bshad rgyun  “expositional continuity/transmission”
4.	khrid rgyun “instructional continuity/transmission”
5.	kha/zhal rgyun “oral tradition” (Bod.rgya)
6.	gsung rgyun “oral tradition” (Bod.rgya)
7.	khrims rgyun “legal system” (Bod.rgya)
8.	gtam rgyun “narration or narrative account” (Bod.rgya)
9.	sdom rgyun “transmission/lineage of ethico-spiritual commitment” (Bod.rgya)
10.	phyag/lag rgyun “transmission of (practical) experience” (Bod.rgya)
11.	srol rgyun “tradition” (Bod.rgya)
13.	bris rgyun “painting/drawing tradition?” (Bod.rgya)
14.	zer rgyun “saying/proverb” (Bod.rgya)

Here is another set of compounds in rgyun:

1.	nam rgyun (adverb) “usually, customarily” (Bod.rgya)
2.	dus rgyun (adverb) “always/daily, usually/customarily” (Bod.rgya)
3.	char rgyun “rainfall” (Bod.rgya)
4.	chu rgyun “water stream/current” (Bod.rgya)
5.	sems rgyun “mental continuum” (Bod.rgya)
6.	rlung rgyun “wind current” (Bod.rgya)

+ ཚིག །

Here are some compounds ending in tshig:

1.	skul tshig “imperative” (Bod.rgya)
2.	grong tshig “vulgar speech” (Bod.rgya)
3.	dgag tshig “negative particle” (Bod.rgya)
4.	mang tshig “plural” (Bod.rgya)
5.	nges tshig “etymology” (Bod.rgya)
6.	dri tshig “interrogative particle” (Bod.rgya)
7.	rdzogs tshig “final particle” (Bod.rgya)
8.	gcig tshig “singular” (Bod.rgya)
9.	zhe tshig “honorific” (Bod.rgya)
10.	gab tshig “riddle” (Bod.rgya)
11.	ming tshig “noun” (Bod.rgya)
12.	tshab tshig “pronoun” (gSar.bsgrigs)
13.	rgyan tshig “adjective” (gSar.bsgrigs)
14.	las tshig “verb” (gSar.bsgrigs)
15.	bya tshig “verb” (Bod.rgya)
16.	bsnan tshig “adverb” (gSar.bsgrigs)
17.	sbrel tshig “conjunction” (gSar.bsgrigs)
18.	sbyor tshig “pre/postposition?” (gSar.bsgrigs)
19.	smon tshig “optative” (Bod.rgya)
20.	bsdus tshig “abbreviation/contraction” (Bod.rgya)
21.	’bod tshig “interjection/exclamation” (Bod.rgya)

1.	tha tshig (a) “term,” (b) “(words of) commitment” (Bod.rgya)
2.	mna’ tshig “words of commitment” (Bod.rgya)
3.	brda tshig “code words?” (Bod.rgya)
4.	gsang tshig “secrete words” (Bod.rgya)
5.	’chal tshig “gibberish” (Bod.rgya)
6.	dam tshig “commitment, vow” (Bod.rgya)
7.	gzhas tshig “text of a song” (Bod.rgya)

x+པོ་/བོ་/མོ་ཆེ།

x + po/bo/mo che:

The compound “x + po/bo/mo che” has often the meaning “a great x” or “of great x” and it can be abbreviated as “x chen.”

1. rin po che
2. glang po che
3. ri bo che
4. rnga bo che
5. zur po che
6. sdig po che
7. rlabs po che
8. phal po che
9. lam po che
10. ra mo che
11. gal po che
12. khang mo che
13. sgo mo che
14. mthu mo che
15. mda’ mo che
16. sbrang mo che
17. gru bo che
18. sga bo che
19. sgra bo che
20. sna bo che
21. me po che
22. rmad po che
23. rtsal po che
24. gtsigs po che
25. tshan po che
26. dar po che
27. gzugs po che
28. ’ud po che
29. ’od po che
30. yur po che
31. g.yer po che

ཁྲོད།

khrod:


1. ri khrod
2. gangs khrod
3. nags khrod
4. dur khrod
5. mun khrod
6. dmangs khrod
7. ’dam khrod
8. phyag dar khrod
9. gad snyigs khrod
10. rdza khrod
11. g.ya’khrod