- phywa/
- ID:
- T125527
- ཕྱྭ (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > phywa/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > cha (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
A class of deities who are depicted as being the ancestors of humans. They are especially associated with the ancient kings of Tibet, and in some accounts it is they who establish the lineage of kings. The phywa deities are depicted as being beneficial to humans, promoting their welfare; they are also said to act as heavenly artists. The phywa deities are related by marriage to another class of gods, also associated with the kings, called the dmu.
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Chris Hatchell
Other Dictionaries
1. Dan Martin Dictionary
'lots, prophecy.' See BBNP 473. Acc. to Shāk-mchog (Shākya-mchog-ldan), 'maker of worldly vicissitudes.' BBNP 473. mo pa dang ltas mkhan. Dpe-chos 503. 'jig rten pa'i lha'i bye brag cig. mo pa dang ltas mkhan. Btsan-lha. As an ancient clan, discussed in Karmay, Arrow 250 ff. Risking the inevitable derision of seasoned linguists, we might venture to suggest that this word is somehow related to Greek phua, which is behind a number of other words. The Greek word seems to mean 'natural' genius or talent (as opposed to technique) in the arts, and has meaningful connections with the concepts of nature (Gr. phusis), productivity (Gr. phuein, 'to produce') and tribe (Gr. phūlé). Hence the 'English' words physics, physical phylum etc.
- language:
- English
2. Ives Waldo Dictionary
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1) sign, divination; 2) gyang
- language:
- English
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auspicious
- language:
- English
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auspicious, auspiciousness, luck
- language:
- English
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lot, fortune, prognostic, chance, luck
- language:
- English
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lot, fortune, prognostic, chance, luck, fate
- language:
- English
3. Jim Valby Dictionary
auspicious, cha, individual's positive force, the base of prosperity, signifies the indestructible vital capacity, prediction in terms of the relation between one's phywa and the phywa of the outer environment
- language:
- English
5. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo
[1767] … 1༽ ལྟས། ... དགྲ་ཕྱྭ། ... གྲོག་ཕྱྭ། ... མོ་ཕྱྭ། ... ཕྱྭ་བཟང་པོ་འདུག་... 2༽ གཡང། ... ཕྱྭ་འགུགས་གཡང་འགུགས། …
- language:
- Tibetan
6. dag yig gsar bsgrigs
- is related to
- phywa g.yang /
མོ་བཏབ་ནས་ལུང་བསྟན་པའི་འབྱུང་འགྱུར་གྱི་བྱ་བ་ལས་དོན་ལ་ཟེར།
- language:
- Tibetan
7. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo
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1.ལྟས་ཀྱི་དོན་ཏེ།
- Model Sentence
(དཔེར་ན།) དགྲ་ཕྱྭ། གྲོག་ཕྱྭ། མོ་ཕྱྭ། ཕྱྭ་བཟང་པོ་འདུག་ཅེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ།
- language:
- Tibetan
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2.གཡང༌གི་དོན་ཏེ།
- Model Sentence
(དཔེར་ན།) ཕྱྭ་འགུགས་གཡང་འགུགས་ཞེས་པ་ལྟ་བུ།
- language:
- Tibetan
- Grammars:
- Language:
phywa/ has 1 other term directly related to it, which is presented here.