སུམ་ཅུ་པ། | Glossary of Terms

སུམ་ཅུ་པ།

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The Thirty Verses

The Third Well-Spoken Branch: An Exact Account of How All the Victorious One’s Teachings Extant Today in the Land of Snow Mountains Were Put into Print

The Thirty Verses

སུམ་ཅུ་པ།

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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.

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