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Tibetan
Etymology
དབུས (dbus, “center”) + འགྱུར ('gyur, “become”) + འཆང ('chang, “hold, bear”); can be interpreted as “holding that which became the center”. Calque of Sanskrit मगध (magadha), from मध्य (madhya, “middle”) + गति (gati, “becoming”), according to one theory.[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
དབུས་འགྱུར་འཆང • (dbus 'gyur 'chang)
- (geography) Bodh Gaya, a religious site in the former Magadha Kingdom, now part of Bihar, India
References
- “དབུས་འགྱུར་འཆང” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
- ^ Huber, T. (2008). The Holy Land Reborn: Pilgrimage and the Tibetan Reinvention of Buddhist India. Germany: University of Chicago Press, p. 79