ཀ་རྩོམ

Tibetan

Noun

ཀ་རྩོམ • (ka rtsom)

1. Tibetan alphabetic poem (A poetic form consisting of thirty lines, in which the first letter of each line is one of the consonants of the Tibetan alphabet. That is, the first line begins with ka, the second with kha, and so forth.)

Synonyms

• ཀ་བཤད (ka bshad)

References

• “ཀ་རྩོམ” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
• “ཀ་རྩོམ” in Tibetan-English Dictionary.

Further reading

• "An Alphabetic Poem By Akhu Tsultrim Sangpo – Submitted by the Amdo Translation Collective", High Peaks Pure Earth (October 11, 2023)