གཤེན

Tibetan

Etymology

Has been linked to ཤེས (shes, “to know, understand”) with a nominalizing circumfix; compare གཉེན (gnyen, “friend, relative”) and ཉེ་བ (nye ba, “near, dear”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

གཤེན • (gshen)

  1. the clan of the founder of Bon
  2. (Bon) shaman, priest
    Synonym: བོན་པོ (bon po)

References
  • “གཤེན” in The Tibetan Living Dictionary, Mandala Collections, 2021.
  • Goldstein, Melvyn (2001). The New Tibetan-English Dictionary of Modern Tibetan. University of California Press.
  1. Guillaume Jacques (2019-07-19), “Tibétain gɕen”, in Panchronica‎ (in French), Paris, →ISSN, →OCLC
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