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ཆོས་སྐྱོང

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Tibetan

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Etymology

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From ཆོས (chos, “dharma”) +‎ སྐྱོང (skyong, “protector; guardian”). Calque of Sanskrit धर्मपाल (dharmapāla), made from धर्म (dharma, “dharma”) + पाला (pālā, “guard, protector, keeper”).

Noun

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ཆོས་སྐྱོང • (chos skyong)

  1. (Buddhism) dharmapala

Proper noun

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ཆོས་སྐྱོང • (chos skyong)

  1. a male given name
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