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dpon slob/
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T120043
  • དཔོན་སློབ (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
    • > dpon slob/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)

A spiritual master or head teacher of exceptional skill and erudition. The term can also be used as the honorific title given to such a figure.

Etymology
Basic Syllabic Etymology:
Literally "master-study," this term signifies the qualities of this figure.

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A spiritual master and his or her disciple(s).

Etymology
Basic Syllabic Etymology:
An abbreviation of dpon po dang slob ma, “master and students.”

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The governor or ruler of a region.

Etymology
The relationship of this term to a government position is somewhat obscure, though the term dpon , for master or ruler, suggests some connection. Likely the term has more of a cultural rather than an etymological significance.

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Other Dictionaries

Other Dictionaries

1. Dan Martin Dictionary

1. = spyi bla. 'chief-teacher,' title of the 3 regional governors of Spa-gro, Krong-sar and Dar-dkar. 2. the lord & his disciples. Sources.

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2. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

3. Ives Waldo Dictionary

1) master/ head teacher [& student]; 2) sometimes name of khenpo or loppon in a small monastery; 3) Punlop Rinpoche master and disciple; 4) governor

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4. Jim Valby Dictionary

master and disciple, abbr of dpon po dang slob ma, title of petty feudal governors ruling in bhutan, abbr of dpon dang g.yog

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5. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo

[1642] 1༽ སློབ་དཔོན་དང་སློབ་མ། ... 2༽ དགོན་ཆུང་འགའ་རེའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ནམ་མཁན་པོའི་མིང། ...

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6. Thupten Phuntsok Dictionary

(1)སློབ་དཔོན་དང་སློབ་མ།(2)དགོན་ཆུང་འགའ་རེའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ནམ་མཁན་པོའི་མིང་།

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Tibetan

7. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo

  • 1.སློབ་དཔོན་དང་སློབ་མ།

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    Tibetan
  • 2.དགོན་ཆུང་འགའ་རེའི་སློབ་དཔོན་ནམ་མཁན་པོའི་མིང༌།

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    Tibetan
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