ཐུགས་རྗེ

Tibetan

Etymology

From ཐུགས (thugs) +‎ རྗེ (rje); parallel to its non-honorific plain form.

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*tʰuks.rd͡ʑe/
• Lhasa: /tʰu(k̚)ˀ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*tʰuks.rd͡ʑe/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: tug^f-je
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /tʰu(k̚)ˀ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

Noun

ཐུགས་རྗེ • (thugs rje)

“compassion”

Plain	སྙིང་རྗེ (snying rje)
Honorific	ཐུགས་རྗེ (thugs rje)

1. (honorific) compassion, favour, generosity, mercy
2. (honorific, Buddhism) compassion, karuṇā

Derived terms

• ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ (thugs rje che)