The name polo is said to have been derived from the Tibetan word " pulu ", meaning ball.

It is said in Tibetan Buddhism that it is very rare for a person to be reborn in the immediate next life as a human

Wrathful in Tibetan is said Dragpo or Drakpo.

* In 1989, Robert Badinter, a French criminal lawyer known for his stance against the death penalty, used the term " cultural genocide " on a television show to describe what he said was the disappearance of Tibetan culture in the presence of the 14th Dalai Lama.

It is said to have been inspired at least in part by accounts of travels in Tibetan borderlands, published in National Geographic by the explorer and botanist Joseph Rock.

Migou is the Tibetan equivalent of the yeti, an ape-like cryptid said to inhabit the high mountain ranges of that region.

It has been claimed that Weaverville was an inspiration for the remote paradise of Shangri-la from British author James Hilton's " Lost Horizon ", but this is the result of a misinterpretation of a comment by Hilton in a 1941 interview, in which he said that Weaverville reminded him of Shangri-La .. Junction City ( about 8 miles from Weaverville ) has a Tibetan Buddhist center.

The Tibetan term dzogchen is sometimes said to be a rendering of the Sanskrit term mahāsandhi ,< ref > Dzogchen: The Heart Essence of the Great Perfection by the < nowiki ></ nowiki > Dalai Lama, Snow Lion, 2004.

The Bonpo school is said by some to now resemble most closely the Nyingma school, the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism, which traces its lineage to the first transmission of Buddhism into Tibet, while other researchers say many practices of Bonpos resemble folk Taoism.

" However, she said had she known that Trungpa began having sexual relations with women at age thirteen, she would not have declined, considering that in the higher stages of Tibetan Buddhist tantra, sexual relations ( especially with tertöns ) are a means of enhancing spiritual insights.

A paradoxical non-dual awareness or rigpa ( Tibetan — vidya in Sanskrit ) — is said to be the ' self perfected state ' of all beings.

In Tibetan, Avalokiteśvara is known as Jainraisig, ས ྤྱ ན ་ རས ་ གཟ ི གས ་ ( Wylie: spyan ras gzigs ) and is said to be incarnated as the Dalai Lama,

Sangharakshita was ordained in the Theravada school, but said he became disillusioned by what he felt was the dogmatism, formalism, and nationalism of many of the Theravadin bhikkhus he met and became increasingly influenced by Tibetan Buddhist teachers who had fled Tibet after the Chinese invasion in the 1950s.

Though the later Tibetan views could be said to have evolved from the earlier Indian positions, the distinctions between the views became increasingly subtle, especially after Yogācāra incorporated the Mādhyamika view of the ultimate.

The book is said to have attracted many westerners to Tibetan Buddhism.

Ma said the outer group speaks Tibetan, no longer knowing their native language.

Westerners who encountered Salars said that they were racially mixed, of Turkic, Mongol, Tibetan, Han chinese, and Hui descent, and had features from these different races.

There, it was said he impressed his superiors so much with his eagerness to learn, studiousness in mastery of ancient languages and types, and energy of effort, that he was allowed to place his own name on his first books, a Coptic Missal and a version of the Tibetan alphabet.

The official named Hirala Lal Shrestha and Gyaljen Sherpa and said they were taken for interrogation in the Tibetan town of Xigatse.

According to some Tibetan legends, however, a Nepali king named Go Cha ( identified by Sylvain Lévi as " Udayavarman ", from the literal meaning of the Tibetan name, who was said to have a daughter called Bri-btumn or Bhṛkuti.

Mara ( Sanskrit, also Māra ; Tibetan Wylie: bdud ; ), in Buddhism, is the demon that tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters.

The Tibetan kings were said to remain connected to the heavens via a dmu cord ( dmu thag ) so that rather than dying, they ascended directly to heaven, when their sons achieved their majority.

" These texts are said to have been related to Asanga by the Buddha Maitreya, and comprise the heart of the Yogacara ( or Cittamatra, " Mind-Only ") school of philosophy in which all Tibetan Buddhist scholars are well-versed.

The name is a combination of the Sino-Mongolian word dalai meaning " Ocean " and the Tibetan word bla-ma ( with a silent " b ") meaning " guru, teacher ".

Most forms of Chinese are strongly tonal ( an exception being Shanghainese, where the system has collapsed to only a two-way contrast at the word level with some initial consonants, and no contrast at all with others ); while some of the Tibetan languages, including the standard languages of Lhasa and Bhutan and Burmese, are more marginally tonal.

Pranavananda states that the words " ti ", " te " and " teh " are derived from the spoken word ' tre ' ( spelled " dred "), Tibetan for bear, with the ' r ' so softly pronounced as to be almost inaudible, thus making it " te " or " teh ".

1956 ), who dismissed the word " metch " as impossible, because the consonants " t-c-h " cannot be conjoined in the Tibetan language.

The English word " yak " derives from the Tibetan (), or gyag – in Tibetan this refers only to the male of the species, the female being called a dri or nak.

Dongba religion was rooted in the beliefs of the Tibetan Bön religion ; the word " Dongba " literally means " wise man " in the Nakhi language.

A central theme of her teachings is shenpa, the Tibetan word for " attachment ", which she interprets as anger, low self-esteem, or addiction in response to an insult by another person.

A central theme of Pema Chödrön's teachings is the Tibetan word shenpa, or how we get hooked.

In Western Tibetan Buddhism, this word describes the Buddhist funeral.

Vajra ( Devanagari: वज ् र ; Chinese: 金剛 jīngāng ; Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ། dorje ; Japanese: 金剛 kongo ) is a Sanskrit word meaning both thunderbolt and diamond.

The Tibetan word bardo means literally " intermediate state "-also translated as " transitional state " or " in-between state " or " liminal state ".

Manaslu is known in the Tibetan language as " Kutan l ", in which " tang " means the Tibetan word for a flat place.

Gangs or Kang is the Tibetan word for snow peak analogous to alp or himal ; rinpoche is an honorific meaning " precious one " so the combined term can be translated " precious jewel of snows ".

The original referent of the English word wolf, the Eurasian Grey Wolf, is called Canis lupus lupus to distinguish it from other wolf subspecies, such as the Indian Wolf ( Canis lupus pallipes ), the Arabian Wolf ( Canis lupus arabs ), or the Tibetan Wolf ( Canis lupus chanco ), which are probably more similar to the variety of wolf that was ancestral to the modern dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ).

The word ས ྤྲུ ལ or ' sprul ' ( Modern Lhasa Tibetan was originally a verb in Old Tibetan literature, found at 敦煌 / Dunhuang, and was used to describe the བཙན ་ པ ོ་ btsanpo (' emperor '/ 天子 ) taking a human form on earth.

They are considered to be the word of the Buddha, Buddhavacana, and the Tibetan Kangyur contains translations of almost 500 tantras.

It is not intended to help in the correct pronouncing of a Tibetan word.

However, Frank Smythe writes in his book Kamet Conquered that the genesis of the name is from the Tibetan word Kangmed (" the lower snows ", from kang, “ snow ”, and med, “ little ”), as distinct from the “ higher snows ” of the Kailash range, 110 miles east of Kamet.

An etymological study ( Snellgrove and Skorupsky, 1980 ) of the name reveals that its origin might refer to the natural occurrence of copper in this region, the Tibetan word for which is “ Zangs ”.