84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཐོན་མི་སམ་བྷོ་ཏ། | Glossary of Terms

  • ཐོན་མི་སམ་བྷོ་ཏ།

  • ཐོན་མི་སཾ་བྷོ་ཊ།
  • thon mi sam bho ta
  • thönmi sambhota
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  • Thönmi Sambhota
  • ཐོན་མི་སམ་བྷོ་ཏ།
  • thon mi sam bho ta
  • thönmi sambhota
Definition in this text:

First recorded in medieval Tibetan literature as a seventh-century minister of the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo, he is credited with the invention of the Tibetan alphabet and the composition of two much-studied grammar texts.

  • Thönmi Sambhoṭa
  • ཐོན་མི་སཾ་བྷོ་ཊ།
  • thon mi saM bho Ta
Definition in this text:

A Tibetan scholar (seventh century ᴄᴇ) who is said to have been sent by the Tibetan emperor Songtsen Gampo to India in order to develop a writing system for the Tibetan language.