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gsum sgron zhabs btags/
ID:
T212996
  • གསུམ་སྒྲོན་ཞབས་བཏགས (Tibetan, Tibetan script, Original)
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1. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

Spelling uncertain. LKh: the offering of three mouthfuls. A term used throughout Tibet to refer to a practice which is done at special occassions such as ལོ་གསར་ or after the singing of the ཇ་ཆང་གི་གཡང་རྩེ་ at a marriage ceremony. gsum refers to both the number of offerings -- the glass is ritually filled 3 times -- and the number of sips or mouthfuls (zhabs btags) the recipient must take from it. Acc to LKh one must finish the glass on the third sip. [mss]

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