སྤྲུལ་པ

Tibetan

Etymology

སྤྲུལ (sprul, “to transform”) +‎ པ (pa, “nominal suffix”).

Pronunciation

• Old Tibetan: /*sprul.pa/
• Lhasa: /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.pə˥˥/

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• Old Tibetan:
  • IPA^(key): /*sprul.pa/ (reconstructed)
• Ü-Tsang
  • Tibetan pinyin: zhue^f-bac^f
  • (Lhasa) IPA^(key): /ʈ͡ʂyː˥˥.pə˥˥/

Noun

སྤྲུལ་པ • (sprul pa)

1. magical creation, emanation, apparition, incarnation

Derived terms

• སྤྲུལ་པའི་སྐུ (sprul pa'i sku), སྤྲུལ་པ་སྐུ (sprul pa sku)

Descendants

• → English: tulpa