84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཁྲི་བཤོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཁྲི་བཤོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།

  • khri bshos rgya mtsho
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  • Lake Tri Shö
  • ཁྲི་བཤོས་རྒྱ་མཚོ།
  • khri bshos rgya mtsho
Definition in this text:

Also known as Lake Kokonor or Qinghai Lake, meaning Blue Lake. Located in present-day Qinghai province, west of Xining. There appears to be a wide variety of alternative spellings for the lake’s name, which suggests its origin in pre-written oral culture. According to the Dungkar Dictionary, the name Tri Shö derives from an oral legend that the families living in that area numbered in the tens of thousands (khri) and as the lake appeared out of the earth they fell (shor) inside.