སྙིང་རྗེ

Tibetan

Etymology

From སྙིང (snying, “mind, heart”) +‎ རྗེ (rje, “lord”); compare the semantic development of Chinese 仁 (rén).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*zȵiŋ.rd͡ʑe/
• Lhasa: /ȵiŋ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*zȵiŋ.rd͡ʑe/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: nying^f-je
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ȵiŋ˥˥.t͡ɕeˑ/

Noun

སྙིང་རྗེ • (snying rje)

“compassion”

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

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