84000 Glossary of Terms

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སུམ་ཅུ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

  • སུམ་ཅུ་པ།

  • sum cu pa
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Publications: 1
  • The Thirty Verses
  • སུམ་ཅུ་པ།
  • sum cu pa
Definition in this text:

One of two foundational texts of Tibetan grammar, which are the only two remaining of Thönmi Sambhoṭa’s original eight, The Thirty Verses deals with the system of how letters, vowels, and consonants combine and the ways that words are put together. The other is The Application of Gender Signs.