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mi tshan/
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T146694
  • མི་ཚན (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
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In the organization of large monasteries that follow the structure of the Three Seats of Gelukpa (dge lugs gdan sa gsum), colleges are divided into regional houses (khang tshan), and regional houses are further divided into affiliate houses (mi tshan).  As with regional houses, monks entered affiliate houses based on the region they were from. 

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Other Dictionaries

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1. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

the local section of [a monastery]

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English

2. Ives Waldo Dictionary

a local section of [arch] monastery)

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3. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo

[2077] སྔར་དགོན་པའི་གྲྭ་པའི་སྡེ་ཚན་ཁང་ཚན་གྱི་ཡན་ལག་...

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English

4. Thupten Phuntsok Dictionary

སྔར་དགོན་པའི་གྲྭ་པའི་སྡེ་ཚན་ཁང་ཚན་གྱི་ཡན་ལག

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Tibetan

5. smon lam tshig mdzod chen mo

སྔར་དགོན་པའི་གྲྭ་པའི་སྡེ་ཚན་ཁང་ཚན་གྱི་ཡན་ལག

language:
Tibetan