- mo bon/
- ID:
- T150051
- མོ་བོན (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
- > mo bon/ (Tibetan, Latin script, Transliteration-THL Extended Wylie Transliteration)
- > mobön (Tibetan, Latin script, Transcription-THL Simplified Tibetan Transcription)
An term that can mean “Bön priest” or “diviner.”
- language:
- English
- Author:
- Chris Hatchell
Other Dictionaries
1. Dan Martin Dictionary
Stein, Tibetica Antiqua I 173. As a possible explanation of this phrase, which is used in (roughly) 12th-century Chos works, see the citation from O.T. texts in Stein's article on Zhang-zhung at p. 239: mo ngan bzlog phyir bon gcig byed, doing a bon in order to reverse the unfavorable prognostic. There are references to mo bon, and to mo bon rtsis, as ineffectual funerary rites, a few pages into the Bu-chos (Bka'-gdams Glegs-bam) text entitled Bka'-rgya / Khu-chos gnyis... (thanks to Mike Walter for this ref.). It occurs in Zhi-byed Coll. V 168.3: 'chi nad la mo bon sman la sogs pa'i...
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- English
2. Ives Waldo Dictionary
1) mo divination, bon gto bcos klog 'don; 2) mo diviners and bon priests)
- language:
- English
4. bod rgya tshig mdzod chen mo
[2120] མོ་ཕྱྭ་དང། བོན་ལུགས་ཀྱི་གཏོ་བཅོས་ཀློག་འདོན། ...
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- English
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